From Oath to Confession and Back? : University Protestatio in the Late Middle Ages and its Transformation in Wycliff's and Hussite Thought

Abstract

The author defines what was protestatio fidei in the late Middle Ages and how it looked like, and on this basis, he follows its content and intentional transformation in the work by John Wycliff and the Prague university masters, especially the Hussites. He also describes the response of the guardians of the orthodoxy in England, Prague, and Constance to this transformation.

Keywords

• protestatio
• Late Medieval University, University of Prague, John Wycliff, Stanislav of Znojmo, Jan Hus, Jean Gerson, Jakoubek of Stříbro, Mikuláš of Pelhřimov, Hussitism