Whose love of which country? : composite states, national histories and patriotic discourses in early modern East Central Europe

0341865 - FLÚ 2011 RIV NL eng M - Monography Chapter
Urbánek, Vladimír
Patria Lost and Chosen People: the case of the seventeenth-century Bohemian Protestant exiles.
Whose love of which country? : composite states, national histories and patriotic discourses in early modern East Central Europe. Leiden: Brill, 2010 - (Trencsényi, B.; Zászkaliczky, M.), s. 587-609. Studies in the history of political thought, 3. ISBN 978-90-04-18262-2
Institutional research plan: CEZ:AV0Z90090514
Keywords : elect nation * discourses of chosenness * Bohemian Protestant exiles * J. A. Comenius
Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

This paper deals with the concept of a chosen people or elect nation in the early modern period which has been widely discussed on the examples of the Netherlands and England. A similar phenomenon, however, appeared in east central Europe, most prominently among Hungarian Calvinists but also among Czech non-Catholics. In the first part the author surveys Czech literature on the earlier discourses of chosenness, especially Hussite nationalism and Messianism. In the second part he focuses on the period of the Bohemian revolt, its defeat and the subsequent exile of the Protestants from Bohemia and Moravia which reinforced eschatological and apocalyptic expectations and produced a specific discourse of "defensive chosenness," which used the language of so-called Hebraic patriotism.
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