Hilarius of Litoměřice and Václav Křižanovský versus John Rokycana in the time of Candlemas 1465

Abstract

This chapter focuses scholarly disputation organised in February 1465 by the Czech king George of Poděbrady paralelly with the land diet. The King wanted pacificate the church disagreement in his land.

Unfortunately the result of disputation lead by Utraquist administrator John of Rokycany and his former students, later convertits and dignitaries of Prague chapter, Hilarius of Litoměřice and Václav Křižanovský, was rather antagonistic. The study analyses also preserved accounts about this event and their passing on in later historical tradition.

Keywords

• theological disputation
• George of Poděbrady
• Hilarius of Litoměřice
• Václav Křižanovský
• John of Rokycany
• the land diets
• the year of 1465