| Title: | Taborites |
| Original Title: | Taborites |
| Volume and Page: | Vol. 15 (1765), p. 810 |
| Author: | Unknown |
| Translator: | Daniel Lightfoot [University of Michigan] |
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| Citation (MLA): | "Taborites." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Daniel Lightfoot. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. Web. [fill in today's date in the form 18 Apr. 2009 and remove square brackets]. <http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.820>. Trans. of "Taborites," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, vol. 15. Paris, 1765. |
| Citation (Chicago): | "Taborites." The Encyclopedia of Diderot & d'Alembert Collaborative Translation Project. Translated by Daniel Lightfoot. Ann Arbor: Michigan Publishing, University of Michigan Library, 2020. http://hdl.handle.net/2027/spo.did2222.0003.820 (accessed [fill in today's date in the form April 18, 2009 and remove square brackets]). Originally published as "Taborites," Encyclopédie ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, 15:810 (Paris, 1765). |
Taborites, a branch or sect of the old Hussites. See Hussites.
Towards the end of the fifteenth century, when the Hussites were divided into several sects, there was one which withdrew to a small mountain located in Bohemia, 15 leagues from Prague, brought itself under the command of Zisca, built a fortress or castle, and gave it the name Tabor, either because of what the word Thabor signifies in Slavic ( a castle ), or in allusion to Mount Tabor, which is mentioned in Scripture; whatever the case, this is why they were called Taborites.
These sectarians pushed the so-called reformation farther than Jan Huss himself took it; they rejected purgatory, oral confession, anointment during baptisms, transubstantiation, etc.
They reduced the seven sacraments of the Roman church to four; namely baptism, the Eucharist, marriage, and ordination.
They vigorously supported the war against the emperor Sigismund; Pope Martin V was obliged to call a crusade against them, which had no effect at all. Nevertheless, their castle of Thabor was besieged in 1458 by Pogebrac, king of Bohemia, and leader of the Calixtins. The Taborites , after an entire year of resistance, were overcome by assault and put to the sword without a soul excepted; the fortress was promptly razed.