Hajek, Dubravius, and the Jews: A Contrast in Sixteenth-Century Czech Historiography
Two disparate viewpoints on Jewish issues emerged in sixteenth-century Czech historiography, represented respectively by a parish priest, beholden to local interests, and provincial in his outlook, and by a prince of the Church, consorting with royalty and intellectually at the peak of a cosmopolita...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
1996
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 1996, Volume: 27, Issue: 4, Pages: 997-1013 |
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| Summary: | Two disparate viewpoints on Jewish issues emerged in sixteenth-century Czech historiography, represented respectively by a parish priest, beholden to local interests, and provincial in his outlook, and by a prince of the Church, consorting with royalty and intellectually at the peak of a cosmopolitan Renaissance culture. Hajek's Czech Chronicle gathered the charges that would lead to the expulsion of the Jews from Bohemia in 1541. His work mirrored the plebeian anti-Jewish hostility in Bohemia in the decade preceding the banishment. Dubravius wrote Historiae regni Boiemiae (1552) in Moravia, an area marked by a greater religious tolerance than Bohemia, and the Bohemian objectives were not particularly relevant for his intended West European readership. Moreover, against the raw and crude prejudices communicated by Hajek, Dubravius's approach was likely to reflect the more enlightened norms, adopted by papal and royal courts. These differences contradict the allegedly close dependence of Dubravius on Hajek's work. |
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| ISSN: | 2326-0726 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The sixteenth century journal
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/2543905 |