Abstract
This study looks at the concept of royal power advocated by Prague’s radical preachers on the eve of the Hussite Revolution. It builds upon an analysis of several Latin interpretations of the evangelical pericope for the 21st Sunday after Trinity, Erat quidam regulus (John 4.46).
All these interpretations likely came about between 1414 and 1418. The preachers’ vision of church reform was inspired both by domestic sources, which developed into Utraquism and from the teachings of the English reformer John Wyclif.
His ideas from a number of his theoretical works, particularly the tract De blasphemia, were applied to the state of secular and spiritual power. The study proved links between texts, including the direct influence of sermons of Jacob of Mies and John Hus (Dicta de tempore), on the homilies attributed to Jan Želivský.