Europe after Wyclif

0474551 - FLÚ 2018 RIV US eng M - Monography Chapter
Pavlíček, Ota
Wyclif’s Early Reception in Bohemia and His Influence on the Thought Jerome of Prague.
Europe after Wyclif. New York: Fordham University Press, 2017 - (Hornbeck, J.; Van Dussen, M.), s. 89-114. Fordham series in medieval studies. ISBN 978-0-8232-7442-0
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Keywords : Jerome of Prague * Nicolas Biceps * John Wyclif * Prague University * philosophy * theology * methodology
OECD category: History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

The article deals with the relationship between Jerome of Prague, a philosopher and a colleague of the church reformer Jan Hus, and the thought of John Wyclif. The first section of the essay presents the initial reception of Wyclif’s thought in Bohemia and its relation to the group of younger Czech masters at the Prague faculty of arts that included Hus and Jerome. The second section discusses contemporary sources related to Jerome’s attitude towards Wyclif, and demonstrates that according to Jerome’s own assertions, his reception of Wyclif’s thought was limited. The last section shows, on the basis of an analysis of Jerome’s texts, which of Wyclif's treatises influenced Jerome's texts. It also shows that although Wyclif’s doctrines significantly influenced the Prague philosopher, Jerome’s reception of these doctrines was far from absolute. There were other significant influences and sources Jerome did not find in Wyclif: for example Plato’s Timaeus and Calcidius’s commentary on it.
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