Edmund Campion's Bohemian Life
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| Year of publication | 2012 |
| Type | Appeared in Conference without Proceedings |
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| Description | In the hagiographies of Edmund Campion (from Persons, Allen and Bombino to Simpson and Waugh) several types of representation are competing: a classic martyrology, a scholarly life, a conversion story, and all kinds of political portrayals going from spy report on seditious Jesuit (Anthony Munday) up to modern secular history. What is ignored is that Campion remained an influential figure in Bohemia for a long time after his return to England, and soon many Catholic authors adopted him as their example and influence, e.g. Jacobus Pontanus, Daniel Nastaupil, who edited a collaborative anthology Edmundus Campianus coelesti lauro insignis… oblatus a Rhetorica Academica Pragensi in 1651. Moreover, Campion’s narrative was integrated into a polemical interpretation of Czech religious history [a Wicleffo Anglo omnia Bohemiae mala provenisse…Deum de Anglo homine providisse rursus qui illa Bohemiae vulnera persanaret]. From this perspective, Mathias Tanner (1630-1692) and Bohuslav Balbin (1621-1688) wrote their post-Refomation hagiographies facing a radically different national context. |
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