c. 960–980
Old Church Slavonic
The Life of Wenceslaus
Anonymous
The young Bohemian duke raised a Christian by his grandmother and murdered at his brother's door, with the older Slavonic and later Latin versions differing sharply.
Western · Biography
901–1000
The Tenth Century
2 works
c. 999
Latin
The Life of Adalbert of Prague
John Canaparius · d. 1004
The bishop who twice abandoned his see in despair at his flock and was killed preaching to the Prussians, written within two years of his death.
Western · Biography
1301–1400
The Fourteenth Century
2 works
c. 1367–1374
Latin
Little Book on Antichrist
Libellus de Antichristo
Jan Milíč of Kroměříž · c. 1325–1374
A Prague preacher identifies antichrist not with a future figure but with the corruption present in the church of his own day, and calls for reform beginning with the clergy.
Western · Preaching
c. 1388–1393
Latin
On the Threefold Bond of Love
Matthias of Janov · c. 1350–1393
A vast work on the church, arguing for frequent lay communion, contrasting the apostolic church with the present one, and identifying antichrist with corruption inside it.
Western · Theology
1401–1500
The Fifteenth Century
6 works
1413
Latin
On the Church
De Ecclesia
Jan Hus · c. 1372–1415
The church defined as the whole body of the predestined, whose head is Christ — so that a pope in mortal sin is no true head, and obedience is owed to commands only insofar as they accord with scripture.
Western · TheologyEphesians1 Corinthians
1414
Latin
On Frequent Communion
Jacob of Mies · c. 1372–1429
An argument from scripture and the fathers that laypeople should receive the cup as well as the bread, and receive often rather than once a year.
Hussite · TreatiseJohn1 Corinthians
1414–1415
Latin
The Letters from Constance
Jan Hus · c. 1372–1415
Letters smuggled from prison to friends in Bohemia, refusing to abjure opinions he was not shown to have held, and asking pardon of anyone he had offended.
Western · Letters
1420
Czech
The Taborite Articles
The community of Tábor
The demands of the radical Hussite wing: no purgatory, no images, no vestments, worship in barns if necessary, and a community holding goods in common.
Hussite · Manifesto
1420
Latin
The Four Articles of Prague
The Hussites of Prague
Four demands: free preaching of the word, communion in both kinds for the laity, clergy stripped of worldly property, and public sins punished regardless of rank.
Hussite · Manifesto
c. 1420–1422
Latin
The Hussite Chronicle
Lawrence of Březová · c. 1370–c. 1437
A moderate Hussite's account of the revolution and the first crusades against it, critical of the radicals at Tábor as well as of the crusaders.
Hussite · Chronicle