Wycliffite Influence

Question 1

What did Wyclif’s philosophical writings provide for the Bohemian reformist sympathies?

Answer 1

A viable philosophical framework

Question 2

What were the Anglo-Bohemian links related to Wyclif?

Answer 2

Charles’ daughter Anne had married Richard II, Peter Payne had fled England to join the Hussite cause, and two Hussite Prague students brought back a piece of Wyclif’s tomb

Question 3

How did Wyclif’s ideas appeal to the nobility?

Answer 3

By providing them an opportunity to defend their territorial interest through Wyclif’s call to secularize Church property

Question 4

What were the three different ways in which Wycliffite ideas were used in the Czech Reform movement?

Answer 4

A reformist tool for critique of the wealthy church, an intellectual weapon to attack Germans at Charles university, and a political club to re-establish nobility’s power and Czech identity

Question 5

How did Wyclif’s ideas influence Bohemian theologians?

Answer 5

By providing a strong enough response to German nominalism in their Augustinian realist beliefs

Question 6

What was the impact of Wycliffite ideas on the Hussite cause?

Answer 6

While Hussitism took on a distinct doctrinal identity, Wyclif’s ideals enthused the advocated and the ideals of the Czech Reform movement