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ceedings against, promises of obedience and reinstatement, 52; a change comes over him and he renounces all his earthly ambitions, 52–54; he continues to preach against abuses, 55; his death, 55; summary of his Regulae Veteris et Novi Testamenti, 55–60; character of his work in general, 60, 61; his importance in connection with the Hussite movement, 61, 62; 63
Matthias, King of Hungary, war with Bohemia, 369
Maximilian, King of Bohemia, 371
Meissen, Margrave of, ravages Bohemia, 73
Mendicant orders, their avarice and immorality, and complaint against, by Conrad Waldhauser, 24; their persecution of the latter, 25, 26; their enmity towards the reformer Milic, 31, 32
Mensi Zrcadlo (the Smaller Mirror) by Hus, 186
Michael de causis, opponent of Hus, 141; his bad reputation, 152; appointed advocate at the papal law courts, 152, 159, 160; places accusation against Hus on door of church at Constance, 211; he and Palec prepare articles against Hus, 213, 214; circulates false tale about Hus, 215; his part in the latter’s arrest, 219; accusations against, prepared by, 222; seizes opportunity of Hus’s illness and weakness to confront him with opponents, 223, 224; his false accusations against Hus, 233, 234
Milic, John, of Kromerize, reformer, his early life and piety, 27, 28; made canon of St. Vitus in Prague, 28; renounces all his worldly honours, 28; his apostolic poverty and preaching, 28, 29; denounces emperor as antichrist, 30; twice imprisoned and released, 30, 31; his letter to the pope, 31, 32; his asceticism, 32; his mission to fallen women, 33, 34; proceedings taken against at instigation of the parish priests, 34, 35, 36; he appeals to the pope and is declared innocent, 36; his death, 37, 63
“Mohamedans,” nickname given to the opponents of reform, 177
Moravia, allied Hussites march to conquest of, 365; campaign stopped by death of Zizka, 365
Nebovid, victory of Zizka over Sigismund at, 363
Newman, Cardinal, on poverty, 2
Nicholas V. repudiates the Compacts, 369
Nicholas of Hus, 345, 346; leads the Taborites against Prague, 348
Nicholas of Pelhrimov, Calixtine bishop, 359; spokesman for the Taborites at the meeting of contending Hussites, 363
Nicholas of Velenovic, surnamed Abraham, accused of heresy and defended by Hus, 86, 87
Nominalists and Realists, animosity of the former against Hus, 249, 250
Nuremburg, Hus’s stay at, 209
Orthographia Bohemica, by Hus, 295, 296, 317
Palec, Stephen, sent as envoy to Pisa, 99; arrested by order of Cardinal Cossa, and subsequently liberated, 99, 100; becomes an opponent of Hus, 140; at the disputation concerning the sale of indulgences, 151; at the church conference in Prague, 173; his bad faith, 174; leaves Bohemia and stirs up public opinion against Hus, 175; arrives at Constance, 213; he and Michael de causis prepare articles against Hus, 213, 214; circulates false tale about Hus, 215; his part in Hus’s arrest, 219; his false accusations against Hus, 222, 233; at Hus’s trial, 254, 255, 258, 280
Papacy, its struggle with Germany, 2, 3; with the Kings of France, 4; views concerning temporal power of, 5–9
Peter of Mladenovic, spokesman of the Bohemian nobles at the Council of Constance, 240, 241, 242, 243; Hus’s farewell gift to, 275; his account of Hus’s last moments, 283–285; preserves copies of Hus’s writings, 311; on the governing body of the Calixtine church, 357; spokesman for the university at meeting of contending Hussites, 363
Peter of S. Angelo, Cardinal, his condemnation of Hus, 153, 159
Pisa, meeting of cardinals at, to negotiate concerning the Schism, 95, 101; envoys sent to by King Venceslas, 99, 100, 101
Poland, reform movement in, 305; Jerome of Prague in, 325
Poles, part played by in the Hussite wars, 304
Postilla, the, by Hus, 196–198, 310; editions of 313, 315, 317
Prague, foundation of bishopric of, 11; Cathedral of, charged with papal “provisions” 13; archdeaconal inspection held in 1379, 1380, 14, 15; effect of Conrad Walhauser’s preaching in, 23, 24; hostility between Germans
