Publication at Protestant Theological Faculty |
2013
Abstract
The gothic Corpus Christi chapel was built in 1382-1393 in the cente of current Charles square in the Nové Město of Prague. This article reviews the history and transformation of this chapel in the period of its decline after the Hussite movement, since Kompaktaten proclamation in 1437 till the year 1784, when the chapel was abolished, closed and demolished shortly afterwards.
Although Bohemian and European reformation of the 16th centrury encountered here through Thomas Müntzer, all that time the chapel was only an insignificant University sanctuary and also its necropolis, donated in 1628 to the Jesuit order.