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Introduction 1. Constantin Höfler, Anna von Luxemburg, pp. 135–36; Nigel Saul, Richard II, pp. 89–90. 2. See Gervase Mathew, The Court of Richard II, pp. 16–17; also Nigel Wilkins, “A Pattern of Patronage: Machaut, Froissart, and the Houses of Luxembourg and Bohemia in the Fourteenth Century.” 3. See Höfler, Anna von Luxemburg, pp. 133–34. For relevant bibliographical data on Wyclif’s claim, see Anne Hudson, The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History, p. 30 and note 127. For its exploitation by Lollard propagandists, see ibid., pp. 248–49, and David J. Wallace, Chaucerian Polity: Absolutist Lineages and Associational Forms in England and Italy, p. 361. 4. Winfried Baumann, Die Literatur des Mittelalters in Böhmen: Deutsch-LateinischTschechische Literatur vom 10. bis zum 15. Jahrhundert; Walter Schamschula, Geschichte der tschechischen Literatur, 1:36. 5. See Maurice Keen, English Society in the Later Middle Ages, 1348–1500, p. 217. 6. See, for example, Ferdinand Seibt, Karl IV: Ein Kaiser in Europa (1346 bis 1378), and Seibt, ed., Kaiser Karl IV: Staatsmann und Mäzen. 7. Eduard Petrů, “Literatura doby Karla IV. a Václava IV. v mimopražském prostředí,” pp. 135–43. 8. See Jan Květ, Iluminované rukopisy Královny Rejčky, p. 26. See also Karel Stloukal, “Královna Rejčka,” in Královny, kněžny a velké ženy české, ed. Stloukal, pp. 116–27, esp. p. 124). 9. A recent claim that The Dalimil Chronicle was composed by Peter I (d.1347) remains no more than a hypothesis. See Radko Št’astný, Tajemství jména Dalimil. 10. See Jaroslav Kadlec, “Petr II z Rožmberka.” 11. See Anna Skýbová, ed., Listy bílé paní Rožmberské. 12. Michael J. Bennett, “The Court of Richard II and the Promotion of Literature,” pp. 3–20. See also Bennett, Community, Class, and Careerism, pp. 233–35. 13. See Elizabeth Salter, “Chaucer and Internationalism,” pp. 239–44. 14. For the Lollard connection with the University of Prague, see Karl Schnith,”Zu Wesen und Bedeutung des Lollardentums im Zeitraum von 1382 bis 1414,” pp. 135–46. 15. See Karel Brušák, “The Meaning of Czech History: Pekař versus Masaryk,” pp. 92–106. 16. See Eva Schmidt-Hartmann, “Forty Years of Historiography under Socialism in Czechoslovakia.” 17. For the English Peasant Uprising of 1381 and the Prague uprisings of 1419 and 1422, respectively, see Steven Justice, Writing and Rebellion: England in 1381, and František Graus, Struktur und Geschichte: Drei Volksaufstände im mittelalterlichen Prag, pp. 60–73. 18. Anne Hudson, “Lollardy: The English Heresy?” in Lollards and Their Books, pp. 141–64, at p. 143. For Hussitism and nationalism, see František Šmahel, Idea národa v husitsky ́ch Čechách. 153 Notes ✣ 19. See Paul Strohm, Social Chaucer, p. 36. 20. For a short life of this important pre-Hussite reformer, see Miloslav Kaňák, Milíč z Kroměříže. 21. David Aers and Lynn Staley, The Powers of the Holy: Religion, Politics, and Gender in Late Medieval English Culture, pp. 15–42. 22. For the complexity of this situation in England, see Richard Firth Green, “John Ball’s Letters: Literary History and Historical Literature,” pp. 191–92. 23. For the Invectio and its link to women Hussites, see Rudolf Urbánek, “Královny Johana a Žofie,” pp. 161–62. For Peter of Úničov, see Howard Kaminsky, A History of the Hussite Revolution, pp. 237–38. 24. See Susan Crane, “The Writing Lesson of 1381.” For the use of the vernacular to promote and contain heresy in England, see Anne Hudson, “The Context of Vernacular Wycliffism,” in The Premature Reformation, pp. 390–445. 25. Chris Given-Wilson, The Royal Household and the King’s Affinity: Service, Politics, and Finance in England, 1360–1413, pp. 177 (Rushook) and 179 (Burghill). On the Dominican presence at Richard’s court, see Saul, Richard II, pp. 320–21. 26. See John H. Harvey, “Richard II and York,” p. 203. 27. Anne Hudson, “Laicus litteratus: The Paradox of Lollardy,” pp. 234–35. 28. See Anežka Vidmanová, “Latinské spisy Mistra Klareta,” pp. 144–57. 29. See Vladimír Kyas, “Vznik staročeského biblického překladu,” p. 49. 30. Emil Skála, “Německý jazyk v českých zemích ve 14. století,” p. 76. 31. This is the conclusion of R. R. Betts in “English and Czech Influences on the Hussite Movement,” in Essays in...

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