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"Crusade or Christianization? The polemic against the Teutonic Knights in light of French travelers’ accounts of the late Middle Ages" As a continuation of the political unrest opposing the Kingdom of Poland and the Grand-Duchy of... more
Around the year 1410, Heinrich Wittenwiler, an advocate to the bishop of Constance, wrote a novel in verses, called "Der Ring". Wittenwilers parodistic tale of the wealthy farmer Bertschi Triefnas and his unpleasant bride Mätzli... more
Das Konstanzer Stadtwappen wurde ab 1417 in zwei unterschiedlichen Formen dargestellt - mot und ohne rotes Schildhaupt. Eine formelle "Wappenbesserung" gab es, anders als oft angenommen, nicht. Vielmehr kann in verschiedenen Medien... more
The Polish bishops of the Jagiellonian monarchy during the time of Councils in the XV century. The book analyzes a group of Polish bishops from various aspects (among other things, their church career and political importance). But the... more
Lambard. Estudis d'Art Medieval, vol. XXVI , 2018
This paper aims to describe the opportunities of those Hungarian students who managed to get into the royal court of King Sigismund. Most of the analysed group learned in Prague, which indicates the question: Were there certain... more
Jan Hus’s position is compared to those of Augustine, Bernard and Joachim, on which background questions concerning Hus’s influence on the understanding of the kingdom, the church, its authority and of the apocalyptic themes in the... more
The talk is discussed in the Online Forum "RENAISSANCE PHILOSOPHY ONLINE", organized by Leonardo Graciotti and Michele Merlicco.
SUGGESTIONI E MODELLI DANTESCHI TRA MEDIOEVO E UMANESIMO, Centro Pio Rajna, Roma, 22-24 ottobre 2018
Round Table Gerson
The author analyses the legal action of the Polish delegation against the Satira by Dominican friar John Falkenberg, which appeared at the Council of Constance (1414–1418). In his work, Falkenberg called for the extermination of the... more
Статья посвящена проблеме религиозных контактов между Западом и Востоком Европы в период Средневековья, а именно участию киевского митрополита Григория Цамблака в работе Констанцского собора 1414–1418 гг. В историографии до сих пор миссия... more
Rezension zu: Karl-Heinz Braun und Thomas Martin Buck (Hg.): Über die ganze Erde erging der Name von Konstanz. Rahmenbedingungen und Rezeption des Konstanzer Konzils, Stuttgart 2017, in: Jahrbuch für Regionalgeschichte 39 (2021), S.... more
On the 9th of July in 1415, Diego de Moxena, very likely a Castilian Franciscan active in the Council of Constance, wrote a letter to Ferdinand I of Aragon in which he urged him to attend the Council and to reconsider his support to... more
How much can I beware my body, in order not to lose my soul? Is the attempt to beware my body a sign that I have already lost my soul? Finally, are there reliable signs that I am among the elected? And on the base of which metaphysical... more
In this article Ivana Dolejšová (Noble) explores two late medieval concepts of authority, both of which sought to help the Roman Catholic Church out of crisis, but which came into conflict at the Council of Constance in 1415. One... more
Christof Widmer: Auch die geflickte Chronik begeistert, in: St. Galler Tagblatt, 4.1.2016
Tento článek zkoumá, jak spor mezi realisty a nominalisty ovlivnil pozice Mistra Jana Husa a jeho oponenta Mistra Štěpána Pálče. Ukazuje, jak se rozdílnost jejich filosofických pozic otiskla do jejich odlišného chápání nejvyšší autority v... more
The essay examines the role of cardinals in the councils from Pisa (1409) to the Concilio Romano in 1725 with a focus on conciliar procedures and ceremonial. In this context, different functions of cardinals can be traced: They... more
This is the first book-length study of the influential cultural and religious exchanges which took place between England and Bohemia following Richard II’s marriage to Anne of Bohemia in 1382. The ensuing growth in communication between... more
Il Convegno si propone di cogliere, nel sesto centenario della ricorrenza (1417-2017), gli esiti della conclusione del Grande Scisma d’Occidente sulla Chiesa bolognese. L’anno di elezione di Martino V (1417), coincidente con l’elezione a... more
Burning at the stake of the Czech reformer and scholar Jan Hus for heresy at the Council of Constance on 6th July 1415 was the cause of numerous military conflicts between the Hussites and the Catholics which affected the whole Central... more
A response to an article in the Notre Dame Church Life Journal arguing that the term "ultramontane" can be equated with Catholic orthodoxy.
This chapter deals with the commemorative weekend in Constance marking the 600th death anniversary of Jan Hus, who was condemned as heretic and burned during the Council of Constance. This event can be characterized as hybrid in multiple... more
Das Schiedsverfahren galt im Mittelalter als ein wirkungsvolles Rechtsmittel zur Lösung internationaler Auseinandersetzungen. Dies gilt auch für einen Rechtsstreit, den König Sigismund von Luxemburg als Schiedsrichter zwischen dem... more
During the Great Schism of the Western Church (1378–1417) polemical French song texts asserted the claims of rival popes or praised princes who had thrown their support behind a particular pope. French and Italian composers regularly set... more
Online here: https://www.vr-elibrary.de/doi/10.7788/9783412510114.199 The article focuses on the appearance of the English delegation at the council of Constance 1414-1418, which was noticed in more detail by Ulrich Richental than any... more
The study introduces the reader into the legal proceedings against Jan Hus and into the historical context of Hus's stay at the Council of Constance. [Studie uvádí čtenáře do soudního procesu s Janem Husem a do historického kontextu... more
The article, which is based on the documents from the Council of Constance, describes the circumstances of the Orthodox hierarchs legation to the Council headed by Metropolitan Gregory Tsamblak. The article gives a brief textual analysis... more
Günter Katzler is Research fellow at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences at the FWF Project „Balancing Power: Sigismund’s Politics in Constance 1414–1418“. Within MEDCON, he is responsible for the... more
Through the coincidence of politics, geography, and the pressing need to end the Great Schism and address the Hussite heresy, Europe's princes, prelates and their retinues gathered in 1414 in a small provincial city on the shores of the... more