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For the Common Good : The Bohemian Land Law and the Beginning of the Hussite Revolution.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450-1450 SeriesPublisher: Boston : BRILL, 2014Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (165 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789004283268
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: For the Common GoodDDC classification:
  • 346.437104409024
LOC classification:
  • KJP5423.2.G73 2015
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 King, Land, Law, and Authority -- The Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Bohemia -- Medieval Conceptions of Authority and Insurrection -- Authority in Hussite Bohemia -- Chapter 2 Law, Revolution, and Representation -- Legal Tradition and Legal Systems -- Bohemia's Jurists and Legal Resources -- Law and the Hussite Revolution -- Chapter 3 For the Common Good: The Bohemian Land Law -- The Writing of The Bohemian Land Law -- The Lawbook of Ondřej z Dubé -- Understanding The Bohemian Land Law -- Chapter 4 The Hussite Revolution: The Confluence of Religious, Political, and Legal Beliefs -- From Religious Thought to Political and Legal Beliefs -- The Hussites' Understanding of Their Legal and Political World -- Manifestos of Appeal -- Chapter 5 In Search of Continuity: Czech Nobles' Conceptions -- Late Medieval Christianity in Bohemia: The Blurry Line between Orthodoxy and Heresy -- Czech Nobles on the Line -- The Diet of Čáslav and the Formal Rejection of Sigismund: A Confluence of Thought -- Connections, Ramifications, and Implications -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: In For the Common Good Jeanne E. Grant explores the legally grounded mentality of nobles within the Czech kingdom to understand their political actions at the beginning of the Hussite Revolution.
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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 King, Land, Law, and Authority -- The Holy Roman Empire and the Kingdom of Bohemia -- Medieval Conceptions of Authority and Insurrection -- Authority in Hussite Bohemia -- Chapter 2 Law, Revolution, and Representation -- Legal Tradition and Legal Systems -- Bohemia's Jurists and Legal Resources -- Law and the Hussite Revolution -- Chapter 3 For the Common Good: The Bohemian Land Law -- The Writing of The Bohemian Land Law -- The Lawbook of Ondřej z Dubé -- Understanding The Bohemian Land Law -- Chapter 4 The Hussite Revolution: The Confluence of Religious, Political, and Legal Beliefs -- From Religious Thought to Political and Legal Beliefs -- The Hussites' Understanding of Their Legal and Political World -- Manifestos of Appeal -- Chapter 5 In Search of Continuity: Czech Nobles' Conceptions -- Late Medieval Christianity in Bohemia: The Blurry Line between Orthodoxy and Heresy -- Czech Nobles on the Line -- The Diet of Čáslav and the Formal Rejection of Sigismund: A Confluence of Thought -- Connections, Ramifications, and Implications -- Bibliography -- Index.

In For the Common Good Jeanne E. Grant explores the legally grounded mentality of nobles within the Czech kingdom to understand their political actions at the beginning of the Hussite Revolution.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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