Antické prvky v české renesanční postilografii
Traces of Antiquity in Czech Renaisance Postilography

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with a reflection of ancient Greek and Roman exempla and quotations in renaissance postils of main Czech denominations. The using of the ancient passages was influenced by two contradictory impacts: on one hand, there was the humanistic inclination to the ancient culture andits heritage and on other hand, prescriptions for composition of sermons and its theological and catechetic clarity. Two differential tendencies may be found: postils written by members of Unitas fratrum (Jan Kapita and Ondřej Štefan) as well as the Roman Catholic Tomáš Bavorovský accepted sacral prescriptions and omitted nearly all ancient passages. On the contrary, two preachers educated by Melanchton in Wittenberg, Jan Achilles Berounský and Martin Philadelphus Zámrský, used a very large amount of various quotations and other reflections of the Greek and Roman ancient inheritance.

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