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

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About Dietrich of Verona. See Lavrin Abraham of Berkhamstead, 59, 143 Acculturation, 17, 110–11 Ackermann aus Böhmen, Der, 18 Adalbert, Saint, 13; alleged author of Hospodine, pomiluj ny!, 25–26 Adlička (lover of Ludvík), 18, 138, 139, 140, 146 Adlička (mother of Duke Ernest), 115, 116, 117 Aelfred of Rievaulx, Saint, 26 Aers, David, 10, 78 Aesop’s Fables: Latin translations, 48 Agnes of Bohemia, Saint, 2, 15, 33, 34, 35, 41 Agnes of Štítné, 45 Agreement of Verdun, 21 Alceste, 17 Aldhelm: De Virginitate, 102 Alexander the Great, 30, 46, 60 Alexandreida, 30–32, 50, 60–61, 94, 152; jousting in, 130; miles Dei in, 111; as secular, 14, 117; sex in, 112–13; social reality in, 111–14, 124; and subordination , 95; women in, 111–12, 113 Alien creatures: equated with anus, 75–76 Ambrose, Saint, 70, 71 Anal imagery: and alien creatures, 75–76; and deviance, 74; as eyes, 143; equated with sodomy, 75; and Jews, 16, 70; as taboo, 66; term in Latin, 67 Ancrene Wisse, 37 Anima: in Brave Knight, 38–39; in Wycliffite Woman, 144 Animal fables. See Beast allegories Annals, 24 Anne, Saint, 92, 96–97 Anne of Bohemia, xii, xiv, 1, 17; bilingual education of, 44; cosmopolitanism of, xii, 1, 44; death of, 19; and international court culture, xii, 19, 44; and literacy, 2, 15; naming of, 97; as orthodox in faith, 12; religious education of, 12; suitors of, 126; as surrogate for Alceste, 92 Anne of Frimburk, 45 Anne of Mochov, 46 Anne of Schweidnitz, 17, 41, 89–90, 92, 97 Anne of the Palatinate, 97 Annunciation scenes, 43–44, 43 Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, 26 Anti-Semitism: in illuminations, 65; in medieval Bohemian texts, 23, 28, 30, 64–67 Anus. See Anal imagery Aquinas, Thomas. See Thomas Aquinas, Saint Aristotle, 140 Ars dictaminis, 35, 47 Aristotle, 140 Arundel, Thomas, 11, 44 Aston, Margaret, 143 Auerbach, Erich: Mimesis, 110 Augustine, Saint, 29; De bono coniugali, 112, 113; On Christian Doctrine, 57; on visions, 117 Augustinians, 6, 14–15, 137 Ave vivens hostia, veritas et vita, 38 Bakhtin, Mikhail, 63 Balbín, Bohuslav, 49 Baldhoven, Georg Martin, 48 Barthes, Roland, 169 n. 29 Battle of Lipany, 150 Battle of San Felice, 89 Battle of the Moravian Field, 113 Battle of the White Mountain, 49, 53 Bavarian Church, 21 Beast allegories, 125–26, 127, 132 Beautiful Style, 1, 13 Beguines, The, 142–43 Bell, Rudolph, 83, 86 Benedictines: Convent of Saint George in Prague, 14, 28, 35, 37–38; John of Holešov as, 25; monastery of Saint John the Baptist on Island, 27 Beneš: as scribe of Passional of the Abbess Kunigunde, 28, 35–36, 39–40 185 Index ✣ Compiled by Eileen Quam and Theresa Wolner Beneš Krabice of Weitmile: Cronica ecclesiae Pragensis, 27 Bennett, Michael J., 6 Bernard of Clairvaux, Saint, 26, 37, 98, 99 Bethlehem Chapel, 7, 15, 45–46 Bible: Czech vernacular translations, 12, 19, 118, 151 Bingen, Hildegard von, 33 Black Death, 71–72 Bloch, R. Howard, 59, 141 Bloomfield, Morton W., 132–33 Boccaccio, Giovanni: Decameron, 152; De mulieribus, 41; image of women, 140 Bohemian Brethren, 150, 151 Bohuslav, 34–35 Boii tribe, 20 Bokenham, Osbern, 108 Boleslav I, 13, 23, 24 Boleslav II, 23, 34 Bologna, Italy, 11, 152 Boniface, Saint, 21 Brandenburg, 25 Braveheart (film), 75 Břetislav II, 13, 24, 25 Březan, Wenceslas, 93 Brno, 4, 6, 40 Brown, Peter, 99–100 Brušák, Karel, 121, 122 Brussels, Belgium, 1 Brut, Walter, 143 Burghill, John, 11 Burgundians, 20 Bus, Gervais du: Roman de Fauvel, 126, 133 Bynum, Caroline Walker, 39, 85 Byzantium, 21, 22, 26 Calais, France, 1 Camille, Michael, 74 Carrasco, Magdaleno, 83 Catherine of Alexandria, Saint, 16, 70, 89–91, 145; and Charles IV, 89–91; church of, in Znojmo, 27; cult of, 89; as imitatio Christi, 10, 42, 92, 144; as knight, 114; mystical marriage to Christ, 39, 93, 98–100, 104–9, 117; paintings of, 108; as virgin-martyr, 9, 10, 103–9. See also Life of Saint Catherine, The Catherine of Siena, 33 Catherine of Vartenberk, 94 Cato: Distichs, 31 Černín, Humprecht John, 49 Černínová, Zuzana, 48–49 Chapel of Saint Catherine, 100–101 Chapel of Saint Wenceslas, 100 Chapel of the Holy Cross, 2, 3, 89–90, 90, 100–101 Charlemagne, 21 Charles Bridge, xiii, 2 Charles IV, xi, xii, 1–2, 4, 6, 9, 25, 42; as Antichrist, 83; on chivalry, 114–15; and church...