Fulnek Monastery and the non-Catholic Hierarchy: The Dynamics of Confessional Relations in the pre-White Mountain Period

Abstract

The study analyses the dynamics of the relations between the Augustinian monastery in Fulnek and the non-Catholic hierarchy in the pre-White Mountain period. It deals successively with three prominent figures from the nobility and their relationship to the monastery: the follower of Hus, Lacek I. of Kravaře, the Utraquist Bernard of Žerotín and the member of the Unity of the Brethren, Jan II. the Elder Skrbensky of Hříště. The study traces the gradual radicalisation of their confessional clash with the Augustinians of Fulnek, from the neglect of the canonry, through disputes at the level of the hierarchy, to an escalated religious conflict.