MORAVSKÉ KANCIONÁLY V KONTEXTU KULTURNÍCH PROUDŮ PŘEDBĚLOHORSKÉ EPOCHY
MORAVIAN HYMN-BOOKS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE CULTURAL STREAMS IN THE EPOCH BEFORE THE WHITE MOUNTAIN BATTLE

Summary/Abstract: The sacred song represented one of the key genres of Moravian literary life in the period of humanism and renaissance and is best characterised by its considerable diversity – it draws upon an array of opinions, dogmatic attitudes and literary-aesthetic qualities and is presented both in the Czech and German language. In the 16th century the small Moravian territory played the role of a meeting ground of antithetical tendencies – from radical evangelical sectarianism to post-Trident Catholicism connected especially with the Olomouc bishopric. Conservative, purpose-built literary methods met with literary humanism and with elements of the coming Baroque aesthetics. The hymnal writing created here a dynamic system, whose individual components were interconnected with a variety of links, the central position being held by the church of Unitas Fratrum, which was able (particularly thanks to Jan Blahoslav) provide hymnography as well as a literary-critical reflection.

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