Abstrakt
Following the Hussite uproar, the West fashions Bohemians into a heretical nation, an outgroup whose image serves to reinforce Catholic collective identity. 15th-century French heroic fictions subsequently conflate several images of the Other - the infidel, the heretic, the Eastern tyrant - in the attempt to exploit fresh collective memory and cater to contemporary crusading aspirations while building on an established horizon of attention.