Labia tua maledicentiae et calumniae igne calent. Humanist Polemics and Invectives at the University of Prague from 1610 to 1620

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Storchová, Lucie
Labia tua maledicentiae et calumniae igne calent. Humanist Polemics and Invectives at the University of Prague from 1610 to 1620.
Acta Comeniana. -, 36/60 (2022), s. 57-103. ISSN 0231-5955
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA22-03419S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:67985955
Klíčová slova: Bohemian lands * Neo-Latin literature * University of Prague * polemics * invective * Nicolaus Troilus * Antiroxolania * edition
Obor OECD: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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This study deals with three disputes led by the humanist scholars related to the University of Prague between 1600 and 1620. Being part of a broader contemporary ‘culture of contentionʼ, these polemics were conducted either in Latin or in the vernacular, thereby enabling a comparison of the topics, stylistic devices and registers of expression which were employed in humanist invectives. Several Latin polemical texts were written in connection with the university’s dispute with Johannes Matthias a Sudetis from 1614 to 1617. His De origine Bohemorum et Slavorum was not only an attempt at a novel historical interpretation, it became the catalyst for a dispute in which university scholars (Nicolaus Troilus, Georgius Schultissius, Nicolaus Albertus etc.) commented on more general issues related primarily to the concept of patria and the functioning of the academic community. The study includes a scholarly edition of Troilusʼ polemical Neo-Latin treatise Antiroxolania based on a unique exemplar housed in Syracuse University Libraries. This dispute is compared with two other scholarly controversies from the same period. Exclusively in Latin, another controversy with the university masters was conducted by Paulus Gisbicius, an original and productive poet. Illustrating a different register and the possibilities of the polemical style in the vernacular, one rarely documented scholarly controversy conducted in Czech concerned the marriage of priests and took place between the Utraquist priest Adam Klemens and the Jesuit Vojtěch Scipio Berlička.
Trvalý link: https://hdl.handle.net/11104/0351214