The Hussite Poetry of the Bautzen Manuscript: Function, Audience, and Cultural Context.

Abstract

The study provides an analysis of the highly-valued prosaic and poetry texts within Hussite literature, emerged in the course of 1420, in which Prague was defending itself against the king Sigismund an the crusade targeted to combat Hussites. The study concludes, that the original addressee of those pieces was the wabbling Hussite nobility, neverthless in 1448 those were updated in the context of discussions taken in respect to the new person acceding to the throne.

Keywords

• Hussite Revolution
• Sigismund of Luxembourg
• Bohemia
• Czech noble
• Prague
• Lawrence of Březová