Preachers, Partisans, and Rebellious Religion: Vernacular Writing and the Hussite Movement. Marcela K. Perett. The Middle Ages Series. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018

Marcela Perett's book will stand at the forefront of essential contributions to Hussite studies. She has fixed her gaze not on theology or Latin sources but on vernacular texts, examining how they contributed to the formation of symbols, myths, rituals, communities, and discrete religious identities in the period 1419–36. Perett consciously strives to address the lack of scholarly engagement with an "entire discourse in the vernacular" (19" see also 226). The shift from Latin to the common language in Hussite Bohemia facilitated the democratization of medieval theology and religious practice.