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Historia Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohemicae between History, Identity and Martyrology
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SYSNO ASEP 0578187 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title Historia Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohemicae between History, Identity and Martyrology Author(s) Urbánek, Vladimír (FLU-F) SAI, RID, ORCID Source Title Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte - Archive for Reformation History. - : Walter de Gruyter - ISSN 0003-9381
Roč. 114, č. 1 (2023), s. 265-289Number of pages 25 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country DE - Germany Keywords early modern historiography ; ecclesiastical history ; confessional identity ; collective memory ; martyrology ; Bohemian Brethren ; Jan Amos Comenius Subject RIV AA - Philosophy ; Religion OECD category Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology R&D Projects GA20-11795S GA ČR - Czech Science Foundation (CSF) Method of publishing Limited access Institutional support FLU-F - RVO:67985955 UT WOS 001110167100001 EID SCOPUS 85178206143 DOI 10.14315/arg-2023-1140111 Annotation This paper discusses, from three different angles, one of the historical works produced by Jan Amos Comenius and other authors from the Unity of Brethren, the Historia Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohemicae (1647, 1648). Firstly, it deals with it as a work of ecclesiastical history with a focus on how it was conceived as a survey of major changes in the Bohemian church. Secondly, it discusses the text of the Historia as an expression of a specific Brethren confessional identity and collective memory. It shows how this work uses labels for different non-Catholic religious groups in Bohemia and how these categories can be interpreted as elements of a specific discourse of collective identity. Thirdly, the paper focuses on the Historia in the context of the period’s Protestant martyrologies and especially discusses its relationship with the seventh edition of John Foxe’s Actes and Monuments (1631/1632). These three analytical approaches have enabled not only the specification of the multiple functions of the Historia Persecutionum Ecclesiae Bohemicae as a historiographic text but also an assessment of the textual strategies its authors used to navigate their text between the genres of history and martyrology and to express the complex issue of the confessional identity of the exiled minority religious group in the circumstances of the Thirty Years’ War. The results of this analysis contribute to the growing body of specialized literature on early modern practices in historical writing, more specifically on the historical discourses produced by confessional historiography. Workplace Institute of Philosophy Contact Chlumská Simona, chlumska@flu.cas.cz ; Tichá Zuzana, asep@flu.cas.cz Tel: 221 183 360 Year of Publishing 2024 Electronic address https://doi.org/10.14315/arg-2023-1140111
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