ABSTRACT
This chapter analyses the resistance against the inquisition, compared with analogous phenomena in other countries, particularly in Languedoc. The overall pattern of functioning of the medieval inquisition in the Kingdom of Bohemia is not substantially different from what is known and sometimes better documented with regard to other countries and regions of Western and Central Europe. Alexander Patschovsky tried to estimate the total number of people accused of heresy in Bohemia and to compare the results with those for the Languedoc in the era of Bernard Gui, the inquisitor of Toulouse. Patschovsky was therefore right when he concluded that the German-speaking population of Bohemia was affected by heresies and by the inquisition to approximately the same extent as the Languedoc. The history of collective resistance to inquisition in Bohemia can hardly be decorated with a more spectacular initial than the heroic contest of John IV of Draice who became bishop of Prague with the papal inquisition and the Pope.
