A Golden Age of Theology at Prague: Prague Sentences Commentaries from 1375 to 1385, the terminus post quem for Evidence of Wycliffism in Bohemia
A Golden Age of Theology at Prague: Prague Sentences Commentaries from 1375 to 1385, the terminus post quem for Evidence of Wycliffism in Bohemia

Summary/Abstract: This article is a survey of the first Sentences commentaries at the University of Prague, from lectures delivered between ca. 1376 and ca. 1381, those of Conrad of Ebrach O.Cist, the seculars Conrad of Soltau and Menso of Beckhusen, and Nicholas Biceps O. P. Biceps’ commentary contains the first evidence for Wyclif’s works in Bohemia, but a careful examination of the sources reveals that we have no evidence for Wycliffism in Prague before 1385, not 1381 or 1378 as previously thought. If Biceps was remembered primarily in Prague, Ebrach’s commentary exerted an influence in Paris and Vienna, Soltau’s was read all over Central Europe, and the works of Ebrach, Soltau, and Beckhusen provided the models for several Sentences commentaries at Kraków. They may not have aroused the excitement that Jan Hus and Jerome of Prague would, but they make the years surrounding the onset of the Great Schism a Golden Age of Theology.

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