George of Podebrady and Matthias Corvinus, the monarchs fighting for reign in the kingdom of the double people
Abstract
The reality of confessional plurality and the conditions of the time of forced mutual church tolerance in Bohemia, during which the Utraquist and Roman Catholic Churches, and later the Unity of Brethren, worked side by side, were reflected in the state and ecclesiastical creative efforts of King George of Poděbrady. One of the essential manifestations of the development of the Utraquist Church in the 15th century was political-theological messianism, in which Utraquist Czechs and their social and ecclesial elites perceived themselves as a chosen nation called by God for the spiritual renewal of part of Western European Christianity.
It was developed under the influence of the tradition of Western Christian universalism and subordinated to it the awareness of the irreplaceable role of the Czech nation in the history of Europe. Without knowing the influence of Utraquist messianism on the formation of the kingdom of the double confessional people of George of Podebrady and a number of religious, political and social moments of the ecclesiastical and social life of Bohemia during the reign of this monarch, we will not understand much about this particular space and time of Central Europe.