Crux of Telč on Interpreting and Glossing the Antichrist: Stanislaus of Znojmo and the Changing Position of Jakoubek of Stříbro
Crux of Telč on Interpreting and Glossing the Antichrist: Stanislaus of Znojmo and the Changing Position of Jakoubek of Stříbro

Summary/Abstract: This article investigates a revised version of Stanislaus of Znojmo’s Tractatus de Antichristocontra Jacobellum contained in Třeboň, Státní oblastní archiv, ms. A 16. Stanislaus’s Tractatuswas originally written as a response to Jakoubek of Stříbro’s Posicio de Antichristo followinga 1412 quodlibet, but within the Třeboň version (copied in 1464) there is a peculiar referenceto the Taborites that was added by the scribe Crux of Telč. Crux’s revised version sought torepurpose Stanislaus’s Tractatus from a work devoted to refuting Jakoubek of Stříbro’s viewson the papal Antichrist into a text that connected the interpretative modes of Jakoubek withthe Taborites. The Třeboň version of the Tractatus is thus significant as a record of the debatessurrounding the Antichrist in 1412 and in registering the shifting positions of Jakoubek ofStříbro and his Taborite opponents on glossing and scriptural interpretation.

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