Access the full text.
Sign up today, get DeepDyve free for 14 days.
Loading next page...
/lp/cambridge-university-press/book-review-nobles-and-nation-in-central-europe-free-imperial-knights-L0FgsgqRVz
References
References for this paper are not available at this time. We will be adding them shortly, thank you for your patience.
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Copyright
- Copyright © Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota 2007
- ISSN
- 0067-2378
- eISSN
- 1558-5255
- DOI
- 10.1017/S0067237800021615
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
AUSTRIAN HISTORY YEARBOOK 38 2007 almost every chapter of his book. He argues that the Utraquist consistory never submitted itself to the Prague archbishop and always considered itself the true Catholic Church, and that its doctrines of faith did not diff er much from those propagated by Rome. For the author, therefore, the sub utraque town estate, aft er joining the sub utraque nobles in 1575 to obtain from Maximilian II the toleration of the Bohemian Confession, was not necessarily close to Lutheranism. In turn, in 1609, when the non-Catholic estates forced Rudolf II to grant confessional liberties, the Utraquist consistory could unite with the Lutherans against the Catholic Church and yet stay faithful to its traditional doctrine. David develops three principal theses in this very impressive book, which off ers important insights into sixteenth-century Czech history. First, he persistently rejects the traditional (or, according to him, the “conventional”) division between Old and New Utraquism and states that there was only one kind of Utraquism, which always stood by the same doctrinal lines as the moderated Hussites such as Přibram and Rokycana in the fi ft eenth century, while those labeled New Utraquists were simply Lutherans. Sec- ondly, he
Journal
Austrian History Yearbook – Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 18, 2010