By Andrew Pettegree
The Reformation was once a world move, yet whilst it accomplished strikingly various degrees of luck in several elements of Europe. The Early Reformation in Europe explores those contrasts and comparisons via a sequence of particularly commissioned essays by way of best experts in ecu heritage. those will serve either as a lucid and obviously written advent to the Reformation in numerous elements of Europe, and as an advent to contemporary debates at the good fortune and failure of the circulate as an entire.
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726. " Panek, 'Opposition', pp. 357-62. 38 Winfried Eberhard noble colleagues in the estates. The supreme judicial body in Moravia, as in Bohemia, was the aristocratic Landrecht, whose judgements were assumed, as customary law, into the Landtafeln or legal tables. The Diet, upon whose decisions the king was as dependent as he was in Bohemia, consisted also of the three curiae of magnates (barons), knights and royal cities. All institutions were in fact controlled by the magnates, to an even greater extent than in Bohemia.
Dillon, King and Estates, pp. 71-2. Bohemia, Moravia and Austria 27 congregational Church. In complete contrast both to Rome and the Utraquists (who maintained the Catholic sacraments and Mass), they rejected the priesthood, understood the sacraments of baptism and communion in a spiritual sense, and espoused a Christianity that was fundamentally biblical. 6 A royal decree of 1508 allowed the persecution of Brethren, but in practice their noble protectors were usually able to prevent it. 7 The Lutheran Reformation in Bohemia has to be understood against this complicated and many layered background.
This Latin correspondence with Ferdinand is published in Archiv cesky, 20, 82-96. cf. Dillon, King and Estates, pp. 85-8, Eberhard, Monarchie und Widerstand, pp. 316-34. , pp. 155-66, 265-315. , pp. 147-50, 306-11. 27 This brought them into direct conflict with the king. The church's spokesman Dr Vaclav Mitmanek was exiled, and the church leadership was purged of its left-Utraquist elements. The opposition among the political estates, however, continued to follow a reformist line. 29 Nevertheless, after the death of Brother Lukas in 1528 the Union of Brethren elected seniores inclined towards Lutheranism.