Jan Hus in English Language Historiography, 1863-2013
This historiographical article seeks to delineate the main sources and trajectories of interpretation over a 150-year period that has shaped the understanding of Jan Hus in the Anglophone world. The article also assesses the scholarly value of the major writings that have appeared. The evaluation is...
| Published in: | Journal of Moravian history |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Penn State Univ. Press
[2016]
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| In: |
Journal of Moravian history
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| IxTheo Classification: | KAA Church history KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KAH Church history 1648-1913; modern history KAJ Church history 1914-; recent history KDD Protestant Church |
| Further subjects: | B
Theology
B Fudge B Primary literature B Heresy B Monographs B Protestantism B Seminary B Book publishing B Scholarly publishing B Christian History |
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| Parallel Edition: | Non-electronic
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| Summary: | This historiographical article seeks to delineate the main sources and trajectories of interpretation over a 150-year period that has shaped the understanding of Jan Hus in the Anglophone world. The article also assesses the scholarly value of the major writings that have appeared. The evaluation is intentionally limited to books written wholly or largely about Hus while recognizing that a handful of scholars have made serious or important contributions in ways other than producing a monograph. The author argues there is a serious lack of historiographical awareness in the English-speaking world around the figure of Jan Hus that has been apparent during the many international symposia and other events marking the six-hundredth anniversary of his death in 2015. This article, building on the seminal work of Jarold K. Zeman in the 1970s, identifies the existing historiographical traditions, recent developments and advances, and the major textual contributions, and offers an opinion on the future of Jan Hus studies. |
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| ISSN: | 2161-6310 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Moravian history
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.5325/jmorahist.16.2.0090 |