Climate of Change: The Reform Movement in Late Medieval Bohemia
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | Central Europe, and especially Bohemia, in the fifteenth century can be characterized as a period of reform responding to a critical situation in the Church and society at large. A central figure of the spread of reform was John of Capistrano, an ardent Franciscan preacher, whose grand tour through Central Europe in the mid-15th century initiated a rapid advance of the Observant Franciscan order. However, it was not only social climate that was changing: actual climatic changes in the period, which coincided with the first wave of the Little Ice Age, also influenced social realities. The session epxlored three aspects of change in 15th-century Europe, focusing on synodal preachers, development of urban friaries and various extreme climatic events. |
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