Jerome of Prague and the foundations of the Hussite movement /

This book is a scholarly evaluation of the life, work, and influence of Jerome of Prague (ca. 1378-1416). It delineates the controversial nature of Jerome's thinking with respect to the philosophical and theological implications of divine Ideas along with religious and social reform.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Fudge, Thomas A. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • An emerging intellectual knight-errant
  • Jerome as a Wyclifite thinker
  • Disputation and discord: the fugitive and the establishment
  • Heresy and intrigue in Vienna
  • Iconoclasm: attacking medieval religious practice
  • Trial at the Council of Constance
  • Five days in May: the battle for conscience
  • Heretic and hero at the stake
  • Jerome remembered: liturgy, revolution, commemoration.