Creative and derivative? Recommendation Speeches at Medieval Prague University
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | An interesting source for what the students at medieval universities became familiar with during their studies (i.e. concrete texts and authors) are the recommendation speeches delivered at the festive occasions of bachelor and master promotions. The paper examined several of these speeches with a special focus on those authored by Jan Hus at the beginning of the 15th century. The aim was to find out to what extant could these speeches reflect the curriculum of the Faculty of Arts, and/or how much of their style and topics was dictated by the conventions of this little-researched genre. These questions have the potential to help appreciate the literary production of Prague University from the point of view of literary history and understand it within a broader context of medieval Latin literature. |
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