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Hájek’s Chronicle and Old Czech Annals
Černá, Alena M.
According to the specialist literature, the many sources behind Hájek’s Czech Chronicle include chronicles from a set entitled Old Czech Annals, but it has never been precisely determined which of the more than thirty surviving manuscripts are involved. Based on a sample of sixteen reports on events during the Hussite wars appearing in Hájek’s Chronicle and in the Old Czech Annals, we have attempted to establish the source text. We have not found the direct source, but we find most (thirteen) of the identical reports in text R, known as Vratislavský, written between 1515 and 1535. identification of the source text was complicated by the possibility that it had not actually been preserved or that Václav Hájek used more than one text from the Old Czech Annals in his work. the work was also influenced by the fact that Hájek was an unusually creative individual who can be presumed to have not accepted the sources automatically, but to have adapted and recreated their language and contents.
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Hájek's depiction of the Hussite era
Čornej, Petr
The detailed analysis of parts in which Václav Hájek of Libočany in his Czech Chronicle (1541) described the Hussite era shows that the Catholic author did not have the strict antihussite attitude. He fully respected the political and religious organization of the Czech state formed in the years of Hussite revolution.
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Hájek as linguistic authority
Koupil, Ondřej
This study deals with the reception of Hájek’s Czech Chronicle as a text that acted as a linguistic authority, amodel that long stood in second place behind the Bible in the hierarchy of prestige Czech texts. Probes extending from the 16th century to the beginning of the 21st century chart the gradual retreat of Hájek’s text from this position to that of a venerable linguistic heirloom. Hájek’s linguistic authority indeed waned with time, just like his historical authority. the relations between Hájek’s individual spheres of authority are diagramatically set out in Section 7. Section 8 raises more general questions on the importance of period linguistic authorities for handling and periodicizing linguistic and literary history, appealing for an examination of the linguistic features of Czech Chronicle, precisely because it was amuch-read and esteemed czech text for many centuries, practically and theoretically considered to be an important linguistic model.
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