Search Results: Czech history and culture from Focloir

Religion pmjh Petr z Mladenovic, d. 1451.John Hus at the Council of Constance by Peter of Mladon̮ovice. Translated from the Latin (Relatio de Magistri Joannis Hus causa) and the Czech with notes and introduction by Matthew Spinka. (Series: Records of civilization: sources and studies, no. 73). New York: Columbia University Press, 1965, (second printing 1968)1968, xiii, 327 pages, bib, index. Good to very good copy. $13.50 Box 4

RL 1255 The Reformation in Eastern and Central Europe. Edited by Karin Maag. (Series: St. Andrews studies in Reformation history). Aldershot, England; Brookfield, VT: Scolar Press, 1997, xi, 235 pages, index, illus., maps. Thirteen essays by various scholars. There are occasional check marks and underlining (pencil) in text. Book is from the library of a Lutheran scholar. Nice copy in dust jacket. $25.00

Middle Ages102v5s Veltrusky, Jarmila F. A Sacred Farce from Medieval Bohemia: Mastickar. Ann Arbor: Horace H. Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 1985, ix, 396 pages, bib, index. Fine copy of the hardcover. $23.50 Box A 102
The Ointment Seller
(Mastičkář, Unguentarius) is a medieval Bohemian play written in a mix of Czech and Latin. Two incomplete extant fragments tell the story of a merchant (the ointment seller) who with the assistance of his apprentice convinces three ladies called Mary to buy his unguents. In the process, the merchant performs a "resurrection" and fights with his wife, and his assistant also gets into a fight. Peppered with obscenities and foreign words, the play is regarded as a farce mocking socially subordinate groups, including Jews, Germans, and women.