Anne’s Bohemia: Czech Literature And Society, 1310-1420

Contents

List of Illustrations ix Foreword xi David Wallace Acknowledgments xv Abbreviations xvii A Note on the Use of Czech Proper Names xix Introduction Anne’s Bohemia: Toward a Comparative Study of Medieval Czech Literature 1 1. Prologue: Literature in Old Church Slavonic, Latin, and Czech before 1310 20 2. A Literature of Their Own: Women Readers and Writers in Medieval Bohemia 33 3. The War of the Bohemian Maidens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Language in The Dalimil Chronicle 50 4. Alien Bodies: Exclusion, Obscenity, and Social Control in The Ointment Seller 63 5. A Bohemian Imitatio Christi: The Legend of Saint Procopius 77 6. The Radiant Rose: Female Sanctity and Dominican Piety in the Czech Life of Saint Catherine 88 7. Bohemian Knights: Reflections of Social Reality in the Czech Epic and Verse Romances 110 8. From Courtier to Rebel: Ideological Ambivalence in Smil Flaška’s The New Council 125 Contents ✣ 9. Writing and the Female Body: The Weaver, The Wycliffite Woman, and The Dispute between Prague and Kutná Hora 134 10. Epilogue: Continuity and Change in Fifteenth-Century Czech Literature 149 Notes 153 Bibliography 171 Index 185 Contents ...