A Companion to Jan Hus

A Companion to Jan Hus offers in eleven substantial essays authored by specialized researchers from four countries an account of the life, work, thought and commemoration of Jan Hus (+ 1415), an important Czech theologian, reformer and martyr.

About the author

Frantisek Smahel (Ph.D.1965, DrSc. 1990) is Professor at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the Charles University and the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic. His recent publications on intellectual history, political history and Czech Hussite movement include Hussitische Revolution I-III (2002), The Charles University in the Middle Ages (2007) and the edition (with G. Silagi) of Magistri Hieronymi de Praga Quaestiones, polemica, epistulae (2010).

Ota Pavlíček (Ph.D., Th.D. 2014) wrote his doctoral thesis on the thought of Jerome of Prague at the University of Paris Sorbonne and at the Charles University in Prague. He works as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic.

Product details

• Assisted by: Ota Pavlicek (Editor), Frantisek Smahel (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.03.2015
• EAN: 9789004280557
• ISBN: 978-90-04-28055-7
• No. of pages: 458
• Dimensions: 163 mm x 239 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Series: Brill's Companions to the Chri
• Subject: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day