ŽIVOT EVANGELIČKY V ČECHÁCH NA KONCI 18. STOLETÍ: OBRAZ ŽENY V KORESPONDENCI TOLERANČNÍCH LUTERSKÝCH KAZATELŮ ZE SLOVENSKA

• Authors: Stoklasová Hana

Title variants

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Life of an Evangelical woman at the end of the 18th century: An image of women cast by the correspondence of toleration preachers from Slovakia

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

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The article deals with the status of women in an evangelical community in Bohemia at the end of the 18th century. A letter correspondence between preachers and the Superintendent of the Lutheran Congregation in Prešpurk, Michael Institoris Mošovský, is used as the primary source for the research of this issue. As emerged from the research, women played a relatively important role in establishing new communities, as after the declaration of the Patent of Toleration, they did not hesitate to proudly proclaim their Lutheran faith and demonstrated rigid attitudes in this regard. As members of the congregation, they were often in close contact with the preachers, providing them with food and minor domestic help. Among other things, the preachers did not hesitate to entrust them with delivering letters or money. In general, it can be concluded that evangelical women living in Bohemia at the turn of the 18th and 19th century received greater respect from pastors than women living in Catholic environments. Furthermore, the evangelical women played an irreplaceable role in the building and stabilization of congregations at the beginning of the Toleration period.

Keywords

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EVANGELICAL CHURCH; AUGSBURG CONFESSION; WOMEN; PROTESTANT PREACHERS; TOLERANCE CONGREGATIONS

• Publisher: Faculty of Arts, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovak Republic
• Journal: Studia Historica Nitriensia
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 27
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 17 - 37

Contributors

author

Stoklasová Hana

• Univerzita Pardubice, Fakulta filozofická, Ústav historických věd, Studentská 95, 532 10 Pardubice 2, Czech RepublicEVANGELICAL CHURCH AUGSBURG CONFESSION WOMEN PROTESTANT PREACHERS TOLERANCE CONGREGATIONS

• https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8553-3719

Identifiers

DOI

10.17846/SHN.2023.27.1.17-37