Leonard Huntpichler’s Instructions for the Preaching of the Cross Against Bohemian Heretics Cover Image

Leonarda Huntpichlera návod ke kázání kříže proti českým kacířům
Leonard Huntpichler’s Instructions for the Preaching of the Cross Against Bohemian Heretics

Author(s): Pavel Soukup
Subject(s): History of Church(es), 15th Century
Published by: Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Nakladatelství Karolinum
Keywords: Hussite Wars; crusade; preaching; Austria

Summary/Abstract: This article deals with instructions for preachers authored by the Viennese Dominican Leonard Huntpichler. In 1467, Huntpichler sent to the chaplain of Reinprecht von Walsee a letter where he formulated instructions regarding the preaching of a crusade against heretics in Bohemia. The contribution includes an edition of the historical document, clarifies the historical circumstances in which it was written, and presents some ideas about the form which preaching guided by these instructions may have taken.

  • Issue Year: 56/2016
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 65-80
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Czech