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German Reformation and Czech Hymnbooks and Books of prayers and meditations

Literature and Religious Identity in Early Modern Period
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The paper deals with the Bohemian Reformation literature. Culture of the Bohemian Reformation belongs to a little-known phenomenon in Czech historiography. Art and culture historians have focused mostly on the Hussite period and less on the 16th and 17th centuries. An important issue is the reception of German Lutheran religious educational literature in Protestant Circles of the Czech lands. The author focuses primarily on books in which the genre of mediation dominates, and explores the prompt Czech reaction to several German authors (Martin Moller, Johann Gerhard etc.) active between approximately 1580–1620 who found intensive response in the Bohemian Lands. The second important field is the Czech hymnography in the 17th–18th centuries. The author finds German inspiration for Czech hymnbooks. He deals with Luther’s songs in the hymnbook Cithara sanctorum by Jiří Třanovský and especially with late baroque Protestant exile hymnbooks influenced by the Pietistic Circle in Halle and Herrnhut (Harfa nová [‘A New Harp’] by Jan Liberda, Lipský kancionál [‘Hymnbook of Leipzig’] by Georg Sarganek). Owing to the German stimuli, the spectrum of genres, ideological processes and stylistic registers in Czech literature from the 16th to 18th centuries is comparatively rich and diversified.


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Der Beitrag basiert auf dem Vortrag „German Erbauungsliteratur and Czech Hymnbooks and Books of meditations. Literature and Confessional Identity in Early Modern period“ auf der Jahrestagung des Herder-Forschungsrates Kulturkontakte und Identitäten im frühneuzeitlichen Ostmitteleuropa: Akteure, Diskurse, Verflechtungen (Dresden, 19.–20.10.2017).


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