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| I. | The Age in Which Huss Lived
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General estimate of Huss—The period, 1300–1500—Boniface VIII—The Unam sanctam—The mediæval papacy—Thomas Aquinas and the papacy—Treatment of heresy—Attacks against the papacy—Dante, Marsiglius of Padua—The German mystics—The Humanists—Disciplinary reformers—Reformers before the Reformation—The Avignon exile and papal schism—Huss in the midst of these movements. |
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| II. | Huss and the Bethlehem Chapel
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Huss’s birth and school life—At the university—Rector—Ordained priest—Preacher at Bethlehem—Prague as an intellectual and religious centre—Charles IV, Petrarch, Æneas Sylvius—The Bethlehem chapel—Bohemian preachers—Konrad of Waldhausen—Milicz of Kremsier—Matthias of Janow—Huss’s sermons—Preaching before the synod—The Bethlehem chapel pulpit—Huss’s Christmas meditation—Palacky on Huss as a preacher. |
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| III. | Huss’s Debt to Wyclif
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The university of Prague—Wyclif’s writings carried to Bohemia—Wyclif’s teachings—His treatment in England—His definition of the church—His influence at the university of Prague—Its decision on the Wyclifite Articles—Waldenses. |
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| IV. | Huss as a National Leader
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Three currents in Prague—Archbishop Zbynek—Huss as synodal preacher—Attacks clerical vice—The blood of Wylsnack—The parts of Christ’s body—Relics—Document from Oxford about Wyclif—Palecz and Stanislaus of Znaim—Zbynek summoned by the pope to search for Wyclifite heresy—Indictment against Huss—The doctrine of remanence—Zbynek’s reply—“No heresy in Bohemia”—Call of the council of Pisa—Breach between Wenzel and Zbynek—Wenzel’s withdrawal from the Roman obedience—Sigismund—Wenzel’s sympathies for Huss—Germans and Czechs at the university—Wenzel changes the charter—Secession of the Germans—Huss’s responsibility. |
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| V. | In Open Revolt Against the Archbishop
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Council of Pisa—Huss supports Alexander V—Huss indicted at Rome—Alexander orders chapels for preaching closed and Wyclifism punished—Zbynek decrees the burning of Wyclif’s writings—Huss’s appeal—Sermon of defiance—The writings burned—Huss excommunicated—Wyclif defended in public addresses—Huss’s assertion of freedom of inquiry—Richard Wyche—Huss appeals to John XXIII—King and queen intercede—Huss’s procurators—Huss cited to Rome—Refuses to obey—Indignities to Zbynek—Formal attempt to reconcile Zbynek and Huss—Zbynek’s withdrawal from Prague—Turns to Sigismund—Zbynek’s death. |
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