The Native Literature of Bohemia in the Fourteenth Century
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THE
NATIVE LITERATURE OF BOHEMIA
IN THE FOURTEENTH CENTURY.
FOUR LECTURES DELIVERED BEFORE THE UNIVERSITY
OF OXFORD ON THE ILCHESTER
FOUNDATION.
BY A. H. WRATISLAW, M.A.
HEAD MASTER OF THE GRAMMAR SCHOOL, BURY ST. EDMUND’S, AND FORMERLY
FELLOW AND TUTOR OF CHRIST’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE.

LONDON:
GEORGE BELL AND SONS,
YORK STREET, COVENT GARDEN.
1878.
CHISWICK PRESS:—CHARLES WHITTINGHAM, TOOKS COURT,
CHANCERY LANE.


CONTENTS.
| (not listed in original)PREFACE(not listed in original) |
| LECTURE I. |
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| LECTURE II. |
Satirical Poetry—Satire “On Wicked Smiths”—Poem on the Ten Commandments—Bigamy—Adaptation of an Indian Tale—The Confessional—The “Anticlaudianus”—Specimen—Lord Smil Flaska—The New Council of Animals—Specimens—“Wise Counsel of a Father to a Son”—Specimen—“Contest of Water and Wine”—Specimen—“The Groom and the Scholar”—Specimen—Poem on the Death of the Blind King of Bohemia at the Battle of Creçypp. 43—76 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| LECTURE III. |
Rise of Bohemian Prose—“Book of the Old Lord of Rosenberg”—Specimens—Legends of St. Cyril, St. Methodius, and St. Ludmilla of Bohemia—Translations of the Scriptures—Life of Christ—Specimen—Albertus Magus’s “Book of the Virtues”—Specimen—Pulkava’s “Chronicle”—Specimen—“Autobiography of the Emperor Charles IV.”—Specimen—Coronation Service—Specimen—“Ordo Judicii Terræ”—Specimens—Andrew of Dubá’s “Exposition of the Common Law of the Land of Bohemia”—Specimens—Tkadleczek—Specimenspp. 77—121 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
| LECTURE IV. |
Thomas of Stitný, Theologian, Homilist, and Philosopher— Conclusionpp. 122—165 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . |
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