Husitská doba v českých knihách historiografických zápisků. Příspěvek k dějepisectví v „dlouhém“ 18. století

Abstract

The Hussite Era as Depicted in Czech History Books. Contributions to Historiography in the ‘Long’ 18th Century This paper is a loose sequel to our 2017 essay “The Hussite Era in the First Edition of Daniel Adam of Veleslavín’s Historical Calendar”, in which we argued that any researcher of an Early Modern Czech historiographic text should thoroughly compare its factual content with the sources it creatively paraphrases, mainly with Václav Hájek of Libočany’s Czech Cronicle. The present article introduces eight Czech manuscripts that emerged in the years 1741–1835 containing passages devoted to the Hussite era and retelling the story of the late 14th and 15th century, each with its own particular angle and emphasis. Since at least six authors are Catholic, their reception of Jan Hus and the militant Utraquist movement is predictably negative; however, our most interesting outputs concern the way historiographers pursued an intertextual discussion with their Humanist predecessors in the first three decades of the 15th century, while paying little or no attention to events that took place after the ratification of the Basel Compacts in 1436.

Keywords

• wenceslaus iv of bohemia
• jan hus
• jan žižka
• sigismund of luxembourg
• george of poděbrady
• wenceslaus hájek of libočany
• daniel adam of veleslavín
• františek jan vavák
• hussite era
• early modern historiography