I 170 Blanka Zilynská Václav of Dráchov, Jan Papoušek of Soběslav, and Václav of Prachatice), and in 1434 three were admitted to membership in the Faculty of Arts (Dráchov, Papoušek, and Prachatice).10 For the first years renewal, the university was attended exclusively by students from the Bohemian lands. Soon, however, its reputation improved, and in the 1440s the university benches and masters’ colleges began to fill up. There was a brief interlude when the university welcomed foreign applicants. The first two arrived in 1442, and apparently negotiated the admission of others from Vienna, where a rift within the university, and between the university and the city, led to a limited secession in 1443. Other students and masters followed suit. The influx of foreign academics represented the first break in the Utraquist monopoly on Prague’s university.11 After the resumption of teaching, between 11 and 15 names of masters appeared at the faculty each year.12 They were all locals. Before the war, about ten of them were graduated masters, and the promotion of another four came in 1430. This was followed ten years later by the graduation of five other masters. From 1443 onwards, masters’ graduations were held regularly. Between 1443 and 1447, 26 masters were graduated, half of them foreigners.13 For the entire period from the confirmation of university privileges by Emperor Sigismund (1437) to the coup d’état of September 1448, 46 masters are documented at the University of Prague, of whom about 14 were of foreign origin. Most of the pre-war graduates closed their careers in the 1430s, and only some of them were active until the 1450s or later, such as the elected Hussite archbishop Jan Rokycana (until 1471).14 In the 1440s came a change of generations. Younger masters became engaged, including Catholics, who were not recruited only from among the incoming foreigners. 10 “Liber decanorum facultatis philosophicae universitatis Pragensis”, vols. 1–2, in Monumenta historica Universitatis Karolo-Ferdinandeae Pragensis, vols. I/1–2 (Prague, 1830, 1832), here vol. 2, 8 and 11. The activity of Václav of Prachatice is documented until 1460, see Mlada Holá, Martin Holý et al., Profesoři pražské utrakvistické univerzity v pozdním středověku a raném novověku (1457/1458–1622) (Prague, 2022), 420–21 (by Mlada Holá). 11 The most detailed on the Viennese secession is František Šmahel, “Počátky humanismu na pražské universitě v době poděbradské,” Acta Universitatis Carolinae – Historia Universitatis Carolinae Pragensis 1 (1960): 57–60; further idem, “Paris und Prag um 1450. Johannes Versor und seine böhmischen Schüller,” in idem, Die Prager Universität im Mittelalter. Gesammelte Aufsätze/ The Charles University in the Middle Ages. Selected Studies, Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 28 (Leiden, 2007), 441–42. 12 For the sake of comparison, let us note that at the beginning of 1417, 42 masters were still present at the quodlibet of Prokop of Kladruby, and as many as 78 theses were ready for defense. See František Šmahel, “Die Verschriftlichung der Quodlibet-Disputationen an der Prager Artistenfakultät bis 1420,” in idem, Die Prager Universität im Mittelalter. Gesammelte Aufsätze/ The Charles University in the Middle Ages. Selected Studies, Education and Society in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, 28 (Leiden, 2007), 369 and 381. 13 The composition of the teaching staff in the first decade after the Compactata was elaborated by Pavel Kotau, Mistři pražské artistické fakulty v letech 1437–1448, Diploma Thesis, Faculty of Arts, Charles University (Prague, 2011); older attempts are Václav Vladivoj Tomek, Dějepis města Prahy, vols. 4, 6, 9 (Prague 1879, 1885, 1893), here vol. 9, 223–26 and 357–60 (overview for the long period 1430–1526 without chronological stages); Šmahel, “Počátky humanismu,” 60; idem and Miroslav Truc, “Studia k dějinám Univerzity Karlovy v letech 1433–1622,” in idem, Alma mater Pragensis (Prague, 2016), 411–58, and very incompletely Lothar Schletz, Die Magister der artistischen Fakultät der Hohen Schule zu Prag und ihre Schriften im Zeitraum von 1409 bis 1550, Inaugural-Dissertation zur Erlangung der Doktorwürde der Hohen Medizinischen Fakultät der Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (Erlangen, 1971). 14 Rokycana’s role at the university was marked by his function as administrator of the Utraquist clergy. In 1435, the land diet elected him as a candidate for the archiepiscopal see. This he never received, because his election was not confirmed by the papal curia. Cf. Anna Paner, “Erzbischof Jan Rokycana (1397–1471). Politische persönlichkeit der Hussitenzeit,” Quaestiones Medii Aevi Novae, 21 (2016): 401–54, and most recently Holá and Holý, Profesoři pražské utrakvistické univerzity, 430–33 (by Ivan Hlaváček), with further literature.
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