The course will focus on the religious reformations, both protestant and catholic – from various points of view, including the relationship between religion and politics, social topics like gender or family, cultural themes or the complex social changes which the confessionalization brought. The focus will be mainly on Czech lands and the confessional clash here, because this era played big part in forming of the Czech national identity.

LITERATURE

GENERAL

BOSSY, John, 1992, Christianity in the West. 1400 – 1700. Oxford.

EVANS, W. John, 1985, The Making of the Habsburg Monarchy. 1550 – 1700. An Interpretation. Oxford.

PÁNEK, Jaroslav, 2009, A History of the Czech Lands, Praha.

POLIŠENSKÝ, Josef, 1991, History of Czechoslovakia in Outline, Praha.

CZECH REFORMATION

DAVID, V. Zdeněk, 2003, Finding the Middle Way. The Utraquists´ liberal challenge to Rome and Luther. Washington.

DOLEŽALOVÁ, Eva, 2011, Confession and Nation in the Era of Reformation. Central Europe in Comparative Perspective. Praha.

LOUTHAN, Howard, 2009, Converting Bohemia. Force and Persuasion in the Catholic Reformation. Cambridge.

Magazine: Bohemian Reformation and Religious Practice (online)

PROTESTANT REFORMATION

LOHSE, Bernhard, 1987, Martin Luther. An Introduction to his Life and Work, Edinburgh.

MARIUS, Richard, 1999, Martin Luther. The Christian between God and death, Cambridge.

CATHOLIC REFORMATION

BIRELEY, Robert, 1999, Refashioning of Catholicism. 1450 – 1700. Reassessment of the Counter-Reformation. Basingstoke.

HSIA, R. Po-Chia, 1998, The World of Catholic Renewal (1540 – 1720). Cambridge.

MULLET, A. Michael, 1999, The Catholic Reformation. London.

SELECTED TOPICS

STJERNA, Irmeli Kirsi, 2007, Women in the Reformation. Malden.

Teacher: PhDr. Barbora Jiřincová
Contact: barbora.jirincova@gmail.com