Medieval Travelogues from Bohemia: Products of a Society Characterized by its Different Religious Communities?
2015
Abstract
This paper analyses the question of confessional identity in the Fifteenth century Bohemian travel literature. The religious division influenced these texts and they became a medium for their authors to comment on this question.
Despite the similar religious perception of the world among the Catholics, the Utraquists or the members of the Unity of Brethren (and those of unclear religious identity), the texts we analyse reflect the polemics aimed at the other religious communities.