Rektorská řada předhusitské pražské třífakultní univerzity (do vydání Dekretu kutnohorského). Nové poznatky a otazníky

This study aims to supplement and amend the current list of Rectors of the medieval three-faculty University in Prague (until 1409). Whereas, thanks to its preserved register, we know all the Rectors of the Law University, which separated itself from the contemporary, and at least formally unified University Corporation in 1372, the list of Rectors of the three-faculty University has to be compiled step by step from individual documents, which have now been found. The author has incorporated all Rectors mentioned in more recent publications within his listing. In addition, he personally discovered a letter from 1394 which had been sent to Göttingen by an unknown Rector. The resulting succession of Rectors, although still considerably incomplete, shows certain irregularities in terms of the number of Rectors holding office each year (in particular in 1383 and 1394). Based on this discovery, the author questions the received idea of Rectorship semester tenures. He draws attention to the possibility of at least the temporary use of the Parisian model of quarter-yearly Rectorships, which was in force at the Universities of Heidelberg and Cologne in the second half of the 1380s. However, there is a lack of evidence so far to make it possible to reach any definite conclusion.