For the common good
Subtitle: the Bohemian land law and the beginning of the Hussite Revolution
By: by Jeanne E. Grant
Series: East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages,  450-1450 -- volume 28
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 155
ISBN-13: 9789004282896; 9789004283268
Subjects: Land tenure; Law and legislation; Land titles; Feudal law; History; Nobility; Bohemia (Czech Republic); Politics and government; Hussites
Description: "In For the Common Good: The Bohemian Land Law and the Beginning of the Hussite Revolution Jeanne E. Grant presents an interpretation of the mentality of leading nobles within the Czech kingdom to understand their political actions in the Hussite Revolution. The nobles’ viewpoint derived from a confluence of legal, political, and religious ideas. Analyzing these ideas in the law book written by Ondřej z Dubé, manifestos, and political documents, Jeanne E. Grant shows that both Hussite and Catholic representatives of the kingdom who participated in the revolution adhered to consistent and widespread conceptions of their relationship to the kingdom, crown, and king that compelled them to defend the common good as they understood it."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-148) and index.
Table of contents: title: King, land, law, and authority; title: Law, revolution, and representation; title: For the common good : the Bohemian land law; title: The Hussite Revolution : the confluence of religious , political, and legal beliefs; title: In search of continuity : Czech nobles' conceptions.