Projects
Running projects
GAČR EXPRO Observance Reconsidered: The Uses and Abuses of the Reform (Individuals, Institutions, Society) GX 20-08389X (2020‒2024)
The 15th century in Europe was as a period of reform responding to a critical situation in the Church. This project emphasizes the contrasts and parallels between the Catholic reform and that of the nascent stage of the European Reformation. In Central Europe, the spread of reform ideas and their confrontation with local efforts is best exemplified by John of Capistrano, the Observants and their diffusion in the region, and by Jan Hus and the Hussite-Utraquist tradition.
The project makes accessible important texts related to social and religious developments in Italy and Central Europe; it evaluates local and central sources of reform; and analyses the origins of social acceptance of the reform in the 15th and 16th centuries from a new perspective. Focal points of our team of international scholars are critical editions of primary sources as well as their analyses and interpretations in the broadest context.
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Finished projects
Jan Hus a husitská literatura pro 21. století [Jan Hus and Hussite Literature for the 21st Century], GAČR 17-15433S
The aim of the project was to make a selected part of Hus's literary works accessible to a wide audience. We prepared critical editions, translations and literary-historical, historical and textual-critical analyses.
Selected publications:
Jana Nechutová et al. Mistr Jan Hus, učitel a kolega: Promoční promluvy M. Jana Husa [Master Jan Hus, teacher and colleague : Recommendation speeches of M. Jan Hus]. Brno 2021.
Petra Mutlová. Wyclif and Hus at the Council of Constance
Lucie Mazalová - Zuzana Lukšová. Gradus summus et animus infimus : The contrast between ideas of the ideal priest and the real priest in Prague synodal sermons
Magistri Iohannis Hus Opera omnia. Ediční projekt v rámci přípravy Husova výročí v roce 2015 [Editing project as part of the preparation of the Hus anniversary in 2015], GAČR 13-21620S
The project aimed to promote and popularise the personality and work of M. Jan Hus in connection with the 600th anniversary of his burning. An important output of the project was the preparation of a critical edition of Hus's writings, which he wrote in the prison in Constance or had prepared earlier in connection with the Council of Constance.
Selected Publications:
Helena Krmíčková a kol.: Magister Iohannis Hus: Constantiensia
Lucie Mazalová: Eschatologie v díle Jana Husa
Dušan Coufal: Die Person Jan Hus
Centrum pro dějiny střední Evropy, "Prameny, země, kultura“ [Centre for Central European History: "Sources, Lands, Culture"] (MSM 0021622426)
The project aimed to address key issues of historical development, culture and mentalities that were linked to the identity of the countries in the Central European region. It included research and critical editions of selected 13th-15th centuries Bohemian sources. Among other things, a critical edition of M. Jan Hus's Enarratio Psalmorum was made, which Hus, as a bachelor of theology, lectured at the theological faculty of Prague University in the middle of the first decade of the 15th century.
Selected publications:
Jana Nechutová a kol.: Magistri Iohannis Hus Enarratio Psalmorum (Ps. 109-118)
Petra Mutlová: The Cult of the Saints in the Bohemian Reformation: The Question of Images
Libor Švanda: Husova Enarratio Psalmorum: K Husově metodě výkladu žalmů