Compacts of Basel

The Compacts of Basel,^[1][2] also known as Basel Compacts^[3] or Compactata,^[4] was an agreement between the Council of Basel and the moderate Hussites (or Utraquists), which was ratified by the Estates of Bohemia and Moravia in Jihlava on 5 July 1436. The agreement authorized Hussite priests to administer the sacramental wine to laymen during the Eucharist.^[1] The Council of Basel ratified the document on 15 January 1437, but it acknowledged that the communion under both kinds was not heretical only on 23 December.^[1]

References

1. Stieber 1978, p. 163.
2. Janišová & Janiš 2016, p. 187.
3. Sedlar 1994, p. 187.
4. Šmahel 2011, p. 163.

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