Religious Violence, Confessional Conflicts and Models for Violence Prevention in Central Europe (15th-18th Centuries). Religiöse Gewalt, konfessionelle Konflikte und Modelle von Gewaltprävention in Mitteleuropa (15.-18. Jahrhundert)

0477951 - FLÚ 2018 RIV CZ eng M - Monography Chapter
Havelka, Tomáš
From Denunciation to Humour. Forms of Attacks by Preachers on non-Roman Catholic Believers in selected Czech Sunday Postils.
Religious Violence, Confessional Conflicts and Models for Violence Prevention in Central Europe (15th-18th Centuries). Religiöse Gewalt, konfessionelle Konflikte und Modelle von Gewaltprävention in Mitteleuropa (15.-18. Jahrhundert). Praha: Historický ústav, 2017 - (Bahlcke, J.; Bobková-Valentová, K.; Mikulec, J.), s. 165-178. ISBN 978-80-7286-305-1
R&D Projects: GA ČR GB14-37038G
Institutional support: RVO:67985955
Keywords : homiletics * Sunday Postils * Early Modern Culture * preacher
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

This paper deals with forms of attacks on protestants in bohemical sermons mainly in second half of 17th Century and first half of 18th Century. Although counter reformation has definitely changed confessional conditions in Bohemia after victory on White Mountain battle, protestants persisted as one of most dangerous and strange enemy of pure faith. This attitude aimed mainly to Czech speaking believers and has been persuasively repeated in a lot of deeply influential homiletic works, namely in postils (in Sunday as well as in Feast ones). The aim of paper is inspect the most important Czech Sunday postils and evaluate frequency, strategy and forms of attacks. Excerpted postils were written by Š. Berlička-Scipio, M. V. Štajer, K. Račín, Š. F. Náchodský, F. Veselý, A. Koniáš etc. Some of these postils were clearly published as „a tool“ of strict counter reformation (M. V. Štajer, A. Koniáš), thus shape of their attitudes to protestants should be interesting. Other postils were composed as a manifestation of a moderate process of the counter reformation (F. Veselý). Finally, we can find authors with really peculiar way of literary form and type of persuasion as well (Š. F. Náchodský).
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