ABSTRACT
During the last three decades of the sixteenth and the first two decades of the seventeenth centuries, until the imperial forces crushed the revolt of the Bohemian estates in the Battle of the White Mountain and made possible the reconquest of Bohemia for Catholicism, the religious situation in Bohemia was in many ways complicated if not confusing. Yet a genuine religious tolerance unique in contemporary Europe flourished in Bohemia, due to the earlier recognition of two national confessions - Catholicism and Utraquism - based on the incorporation of the Compactata of Basel in the law of the land and the acceptance of the Kutna Hora agreement on religious tolerance of 1485 (peace in land).1
