Melancholy about the lay chalice : the polemic between John of Capistrano and John of Borotín

Among various reform impulses in the 15th century, preaching of John Capistrano, a famous Franciscan friar and an ardent preacher, played important role spreading strict observance orthodoxy. During his tour through Central Eastern Europe, which he undertook between 1451 1456 last years life, exchanged several hundred letters (ca. 400) with people countries travelled. These then constitute unparalleled corpus illustrating history Europe late century (Mixson 2018: p. 23). After publication related to Poland (Kras 2018b) upcoming volume Hungarian matters, edition correspondence Capistrano from Bohemia Moravia is currently under preparation. 150) include – among others group two dozen polemical that Hussite "heretics". This paper analyses one sharpest polemics, written by Borotín on 20 August 1451, presenting its critical together English translation Latin text, as well resolving question authorship attribution.