Kterak mají všěckerny skutky zpósobeny býti: edice staročeského duchovního traktátu pro ženy

• Authors: Věra Soukupová , Kateřina Voleková

Title variants

EN

How all the deeds should be done: an edition of a spiritual treatise for women in Old Czech

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

This article contains an edition of an anonymous spiritual treatise in Czech which provides basic instruction for a virtuous Christian life. Like the author, the addressee, clearly a woman, is also unknown. The treatise is preserved only partially in a single copy in manuscript XVII A 18 at the National Library in Prague from the late 14th or early 15th century, together with three different offices of the hours, several texts relating to the Passion of Christ and some prayers, all in the Czech language. The text of this edition is preceded by an introductory study, which includes a linguistic analysis, an inquiry into the sources from which the text was compiled, and a survey of its chief characteristics with regard to contemporary religious tendencies in the Kingdom of Bohemia.

Keywords

CS

duchovní naučení; ženy; ctnosti; středověk; české země

EN

religious instruction; women; virtues; Middle Ages; Czech lands

• Publisher: Institute of Czech Literature, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Česká literatura (Czech Literature)
• Year: 2025
• Volume: 73
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 448-481
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Věra Soukupová

• Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 1420/3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic

author

Kateřina Voleková

• Ústav pro českou literaturu AV ČR, v. v. i., Na Florenci 1420/3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic