Prague Compactata

…known as the Compacts (Compactata) of Basel. The agreement followed the Four Articles of Prague but weakened them with subtle clauses (e.g., the council granted the Czechs the Communion in both kinds but under vaguely defined conditions). After the promulgation of the compacts in 1436, an agreement followed with…

…on the basis of the Compacts of Basel, but he soon realized that few Utraquists still adhered to that outdated document. The majority, called Neo-Utraquists by modern historians, professed Lutheran tenets as formulated by Luther’s associate Philipp Melanchthon. Disheartened by the meagre results of his policy, Ferdinand threw his full…

Later called the Prague Compactata, the agreement was ratified by the Bohemian emperor Sigismund. In 1435 Rokycana was made archbishop of the Hussite Church, and in 1436 he signed the Compactata in its name. Sigismund, however, was unfriendly to the Hussites and in 1437 drove Rokycana from Prague.…