Culmination of the Confessionalization of the University of Prague at the End of the 1450s and Beginning of the 1460s in the Example of the Fate of Active Catholic Master

Abstract

The paper focuses on a group of masters loyal to the Catholic administrator Hilarius Litoměřický who attempted to take control of the university at the end of the 1450s. Their gradual removal from the ranks of members of the University of Prague concluded the search for the school's profile.

By 1462, it had become a well-defined Utraquist institution linked to the Church through communion under both kinds. The episode is an example of the politization of the activities of masters, particularly in academic self-administration

Keywords

• University of Prague
• fifteenth century
• confessionalization
• Utraquism
• Hilarius Litoměřický
• Wenceslaus Křižanovský