Pursuing a New Order. Vol. 1. Religious Education in Late Medieval Central and Eastern Central Europe

The volume explores the many ways of translating theology into Eastern Central European vernaculars in the Late Middle Ages.0Concentrating on the period of advance of the vernaculars in the context of religious text production in Central and Eastern Central Europe from the fourteenth until the sixteenth century, the individual studies in this volume present material so far neglected by the nationally defined historiographies and literary studies. The process of vernacularization created a new sociolinguistic field for the negotiation of social order through the choice of texts and topics. The volume seeks to answer the question whether, why and how distinctive new communicative, literary, and political cultures developed after the vernacular languages had acquired ever higher levels of literacy and education. The volume fills a gap of contemporary scholarship on the role of the vernaculars and vernacular literatures in European medieval societies and with the focus on the Eastern European regions it breaks new ground in regard to questions that have so far only been explored based on material from Europe?s ?West?.0Pavlína Rychterová is specialist in late medieval religion, vice-head of department at the institute for Medieval research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her publications include two monographs on the reception of the works of Birgitta of Sweden. She was awarded by the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the DFG, in 2010 she received an ERC-Grant. Her research projects concentrate on comparative research in medieval history, translation studies and the Late medieval vernacular theologies The volume explores the many ways of translating theology into Eastern Central European vernaculars in the Late Middle Ages.0Concentrating on the period of advance of the vernaculars in the context of religious text production in Central and Eastern Central Europe from the fourteenth until the sixteenth century, the individual studies in this volume present material so far neglected by the nationally defined historiographies and literary studies. The process of vernacularization created a new sociolinguistic field for the negotiation of social order through the choice of texts and topics. The volume seeks to answer the question whether, why and how distinctive new communicative, literary, and political cultures developed after the vernacular languages had acquired ever higher levels of literacy and education. The volume fills a gap of contemporary scholarship on the role of the vernaculars and vernacular literatures in European medieval societies and with the focus on the Eastern European regions it breaks new ground in regard to questions that have so far only been explored based on material from Europe?s ?West?.0Pavlína Rychterová is specialist in late medieval religion, vice-head of department at the institute for Medieval research at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Her publications include two monographs on the reception of the works of Birgitta of Sweden. She was awarded by the Heinz Maier-Leibnitz-Preis of the DFG, in 2010 she received an ERC-Grant. Her research projects concentrate on comparative research in medieval history, translation studies and the Late medieval vernacular theologies The volume explores the many ways of translating theology into eastern central European vernaculars in the late Middle Ages. Concentrating on the period of the emergence of the vernaculars in the context of religious text production in central and eastern central Europe from the fourteenth to the sixteenth centuries, the individual studies in this volume present material so far neglected by nationally defined historiographies and literary studies. The process of vernacularization created a new sociolinguistic field for the negotiation of social order through the choice of texts and topics. This volume seeks to answer the questions of whether, why, and how distinctive new communicative, literary, and political cultures developed after the vernacular languages had acquired ever higher levels of literacy and education. The volume fills a gap in contemporary scholarship on the role of the vernaculars and vernacular literatures in European Medieval societies and with the focus on eastern European regions it breaks new ground in regard to questions that have so far only been explored on the basis of material from Europe's 'west' Introduction 11 'Ich sey ain laye ploss': Four Laymen Writing on a Theological Controversy (Last Quarter of the Thirteenth Century – Last Third of the Fourteenth Century) / Réjane Gay-Canton 21 The 'Letters of St. Jerome' of the Prague Chancellor and Notary John of Neumarkt: A Transmission History / Soňa Černá 47 Latin-to-Hebrew Translations in Late Medieval Ashkenaz: Two Different Strategies / Tamás Visi 75 Thomas of Štítné's 'On the Householder' ('O hospodářovi') and its Latin Model / Pavel Blažek 91 Thomas of Štítné (1330–1400) and his Translation of 'De septem itineribus aeternitatis' by Rudolf of Biberach / Pavlína Rychterová 121 The German 'Ars moriendi': Texts from the Circle of the so-called Viennese School of Translators and their Circulation in the Fifteenth Century / Christine Glaßner 145 Reading Nuns at the Insula Leporum (Hungary): Traces of Bilingualism in a Late Medieval Dominican Nunnery / Farkas Gábor Kiss 169 The Polish Version of the 'Meditaciones vite Christi' by Baltazar Opec / Rafał Wójcik 193 Bibliography 213 Index of Authors and Anonymous Texts 263