Wednesday 20 October 2021

10.30 Introduction

11.00 Session I: Networking radicals

Marina Benedetti (Milano): Religious Books and Inquisitorial Trials: circulation of men, ideas and manuscripts

Reima Välimäki (Turku): Late medieval Waldensian communities in Pomerania: a social network analysis

Robert Novotný (Praha): Tábor and Its Allies

Discussion

12.45 Lunch break

14.30 Session II: Charismatic leadership

Frances Kneupper (Mississippi): The Social Status of Late Medieval German Prophets and their Readers (online)

Tamar Herzig (Tel Aviv): Female leadership in the Savonarolan movement (online)

Discussion

15.40 Coffee break

16.00 Session III: Post-revolutionary configurations

Phillip Haberkern (Boston): Legalizing Radical Reform: Law and Justice in the Wake of Theopolitical Revolultion (online)

Zdeněk Žalud – Zdeněk Vybíral (Tábor): Hussite Memory in Post-Hussite Tábor

Discussion

17.15 Tábor walking tour

Thursday 21 October 2021

9.30 Session IV: Opposing religious sectarianism

Luciano Micali (Praha): The struggle against Beghards and Lollardies in the works of Felix Hemmerlin (1388-1458)

Pavel Soukup (Praha): Hussite Factionalism seen from outside: Bohemian ‚sects‘ in the imagination and diplomatic strategy of Catholic churchmen

Discussion

10.40 Coffee break

11.00 Session V: Ideal and practice of radical community

Georg MODESTIN (Zürich): The Waldensians of Strasbourg: religious radicalism and social conformism (1400)

Michael VAN DUSSEN (Montreal): Wycliffite Views on Communal Fasting

Discussion

12.15 Lunch break

14.00

Stella Marega (Trieste): The Monastic Community as Model of Social „Perfectio“ in Joachim of Fiore

Delfi I. Nieto-Isabel (Barcelona/Harvard): Radical Poverty: Community Building and System Disruption within an Alternative Philo-Franciscan Religious Culture  (online)

Discussion

15.10 Coffee break

15.30 Session V: Testing the borders of orthodoxy

Martin Pjecha (Praha) – Matthias Riedl (Budapest): Knowing the elect from the damned: Politics of discernment and segregation in the Hussites and the Radical Reformation

Yeliz Teber (Oxford): Muslim Heretics in Ottoman Europe during the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries

Pavlína Cermanová (Praha): Radical ‚Sects‘ in Hussitism: Conflict and negotiation between Hussite groups

Discussion

18.30 Banquet & Music performance in the Gothic hall of Tábor’s Old Town Hall

Friday 21 October 2021

10.00 Commemorative event on the occasion of 600th anniversary of the extermination of Picart radicals in Tábor-Klokoty, organized by the City fo Tábor and the Hussite Museum (optional)

Paper length: 25 minutes.
Time slots indicated in Central European Summer Time (UTC+2).