The Oldest Religious Privilege of Sigismund of Luxembourg for the Hussites 101 I acceptance of Sigismund of Luxembourg as king by all the inhabitants of the Bohemian Kingdom. As Sigismund was concentrating on the imperial coronation in the early 1430s, the Council of Basel first gave the Hussites room to agree on matters of faith.10 The turning point came on November 30, 1433, in Prague, when the Basel legates shook hands with representatives of the clergy of all Hussite factions in a sign that they had found agreement on the Prague Articles.11 The deal was three-part. The most important part was the first section, which is called capitula in the sources. It declared the meaning of the Prague Articles and described what acts and documents were to be implemented in order to unite both sides. The other two parts—referred to in the sources as declaraciones capitulorum and dubia circa capitula et soluciones—clarified some of the concepts and issues arising from the first part. While the interpretation of the Four Articles in the first part corresponded mainly to the will and thinking of the Council of Basel, the second text tried to balance this disproportion from the Hussite side. In the third part, the legates of the council clarified additional ambiguities on which the Hussites wanted to know their opinion. Since in connection with the first section the sources refer to the capitula concordata or later compactata (the agreed points), the name Compactata was then applied to the whole set of related documents.12 The most controversial was the agreement on the First Article of Prague—on the lay reception of the Eucharist in two kinds (sub utraque specie).13 The reason was that its fulfillment had several phases. In the first stage, the Church undertook to permit communion under both kinds to Bohemians and Moravians who were in the habit of receiving in this way, provided they would unite in faith and rite with the Roman Church. In this form, the chalice was permitted to the Hussites by the sealing of the Compactata on July 5, 1436, at Jihlava. In the next stage, the Hussite doctrine as connexa, ut illa que fidei erant obtineri non potuissent absque illis que erant regni, nec eciam obtencio regni absque hiis que erant fidei.“ 10 About the negotiations of the Council of Basel with the Hussites in the years 1433–1437 most recently Thomas Prügl, “Die Verhandlungen des Basler Konzils mit den Böhmen und die Prager Kompaktaten als Friedensvertrag,” Annuarium Historiae Conciliorum 48 (2016/2017): 249–308; Thomas A. Fudge, “The Hussites and the Council,” in A Companion to the Council of Basel, eds. Michiel Decaluwé, Thomas M. Izbicki, and Gerald Christianson, Brill’s Companions to the Christian Tradition, 74 (Leiden, 2017), 254–81; František Šmahel, Die Basler Kompaktaten mit den Hussiten (1436). Untersuchung und Edition, MGH Studien und Texte, 65 (Wiesbaden, 2019), 1–96; Coufal, Turnaj víry. Cf. also Olivier Marin, La patience ou le zèle. Les Français devant le hussitisme (annees 1400–annees 1510), Collection des Études Augustiniennes. Série Moyen Âge et Temps modernes, 56 (Paris, 2020), 153–65. 11 Šmahel, Die Basler Kompaktaten, 49, and idem, Die hussitische Revolution, vols. 2–3, trans. Thomas Krzenck, MGH Schriften, 43 (Hannover, 2002), here vol. 3, 1612. 12 Latin names of the individual parts of the Prague convention are in “Aegidii Carlerii liber de legationibus concilii Basiliensis pro reductione Bohemorum,” in Monumenta conciliorum generalium seculi decimi quinti, vol. 1, Concilium Basileense, eds. František Palacký and Ernst Birk (Vienna, 1857), 596: “Habebat enim exordium seu prohemium, deinde erant articuli concordati seu capitula, consequenter declaraciones capitulorum, et post hec dubia circa capitula et soluciones.” František Palacký called the individual parts as cedulae ABC, see Archiv český. Čili staré písemné památky české i moravské, vols. 1 and 3, ed. František Palacký (Prague, 1840 and 1844), here vol. 3, 398–404, 404–6, and 406–12. A modern critical edition has been made by Šmahel, Die Basler Kompaktaten, 170–90, nos. 1–2. On the genesis of the term compactata and its Prague, Jihlava and Basel prefixes cf. František Šmahel, “Pax externa et interna. Vom Heiligen Krieg zur Erzwungen Toleranz im hussitischen Böhmen (1419–1485),” in Toleranz im Mittelalter, eds. Alexander Patschovsky and Harald Zimmermann, Voträge und Forschungen, 45 (Sigmaringen, 1998), 221–73, 253–54, and Prügl, “Die Verhandlungen,” 253. 13 See Šmahel (ed.), Die Basler Kompaktaten, 172 or 183.
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