„Šťastná jest neplodná a neposkvrněná a ta, jež nepoznala lože v hřiechu.“ Cover Image

„Šťastná jest neplodná a neposkvrněná a ta, jež nepoznala lože v hřiechu.“
„Šťastná jest neplodná a neposkvrněná a ta, jež nepoznala lože v hřiechu.“

Virginity and the Reception of Luther’s Marital Reform in the Texts of Protestants and Bohemian Brethren before 1620

Author(s): Aneta Kubalová
Subject(s): History
Published by: Univerzita Palackého v Olomouci

Summary/Abstract: In this study, I concentrate on the theme of virginity in the Protestant normative and moralist texts in the Czech lands before 1620. The article deals with the texts of Bohemian Brethren and the reception of Luther’s marital reform, which was accepted in the Utraquists’ and Lutherans’ texts in the second half of the sixteenth century and the first half of the seventeenth century. The question of virginity in the environment of Bohemian Brethren was reflected in the spirit of the collectiveness of an illegal sect; Lukáš Pražský defended the primacy of virginity in the light of the inheritance of medieval understanding of a corporal purity, but a few years later Jan Augusta followed Luther’s conception of the marital reform. Luther’s marital reform infiltrated the normative Czech texts before 1620 and the overvaluation of the married state was accepted.

  • Issue Year: XLIV/2018
  • Issue No: 54
  • Page Range: 69-97
  • Page Count: 29
  • Language: Czech