Using sources in Biblical Czech funeral sermons

Papp, Ingrid (2023) Using sources in Biblical Czech funeral sermons. CAMOENAE HUNGARICAE, 8. pp. 96-113. ISSN 1786-5484

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Abstract

During the sixteenth century, humanist cultural knowledge was introduced in both Protestant and Catholic schools, where the teaching of classical literacy and literature was given considerable scope. The Czech and Moravian Lutheran clergymen who had fled to Lower and Up- per Hungary following the battle of Fehérhegy completed their primary education in their home- land and their higher education at influential German universities, most frequently in Wittenberg. These clergymen, some of whom had been exiled while others had been born in Hungary, wrote many works related to their profession, with an especially large number of sermon booklets printed in their exiled printing house. These works often employ the authors of Renaissance hu- manism as an intertext, and in some cases they even use quotations from various authors before they are used in Hungarian-language literature. Through the use of humanist works, the broad erudition of a given preacher typically provides a foundation for the use of exempla where even ingredients that are unusual for the genre become conceptually chosen tools of transmitting the message of the normative denomination.

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