Kamila Veverková, Angelo Shaun Franklin

The Four Articles of Prague within the Public Sphere of Hussite Bohemia (eBook, PDF)

On the 600th Anniversary of Their Declaration (1420-2020)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Hussites' contribution to the transformation of the Czech state and its influence upon constitutional development were substantial. Various Hussite factions united over a program known as the Four Articles of Prague. InThe Four Articles of Prague within the Public Sphere of Hussite Bohemia, Kamila Veverková situates the Four Articles-presented here in a new translation by Angelo Franklin-in their political and economic context, emphasizing the societal reforms stimulated by the Hussite theological program. The Hussites demanded free proclamation of God's word, advocated public punishment of sins for all estates, rejected the secular rule of the church, and proclaimed the need to receive communion under both kinds. With no royal government in the country, the Czech Land Diet and its appointed administrators exercised practical power. The Czechs' arduous negotiations at the Council of Basel ultimately succeeded; the Council adopted the Four Articles of Prague in the form of the Compactata, which later became part of Czech law (1436). The Religious Peace of Kutná Hora (1485) expressed the new constitutional situation, allowing religious freedom. This unheard-of principle preceded other related legal developments by several centuries. Hussites permanently changed the form of the state and law, becoming a model for Europe in the transition from feudalism to a bourgeois society.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 154
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978788978
• Artikelnr.: 74842363

Autorenporträt

Marsha Semmel is an independent consultant working with cultural and educational organizations on leadership development, strategic planning, and partnerships. In 2019, she published Partnership Power: Essential Museum Strategies for Today's Networked World. Semmel has served as Senior Advisor to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the National Center for Science and Civic Engagement, and the Noyce Leadership Institute. She has taught at the Bank Street College Graduate program in museum education since 2015. Previously, Semmel served in leadership roles at the Institute of Museum and Library Services and NEH. She has been President/CEO of Conner Prairie, in Indiana, and Women of the West Museum in Denver.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Part I: The Four Articles of Prague
Introduction to the Four Articles of Prague (1951)
The Four Articles of Prague: A New Translation on the Occasion of the 600th
Anniversary of their Declaration (1420-2020)
Part II: The Four Articles of Prague Within the Public Sphere of Hussite
Bohemia
Introduction
Chapter 1: Master Jan Hus & His Predecessors
Chapter 2: The Four Articles of Prague: A Political and Legal Program
Chapter 3: Between the Four Articles and the Iudex Compactatus in Egra: The
Struggle of the Bohemian Diet for the Sovereignty of the Kingdom of Bohemia
Chapter 4: Land Diets in the Struggle against Sigismund and the Council of
Basel: The Journey towards the Compacts of Jihlava (1436)
Chapter 5: The Constitutional Development of the Bohemian State from 1436
to 1471
Conclusion