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Jan Hus, Bohemian Warriors, and the First Protestant Reformation (1369-1620)
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- ISBN8233683305
- EAN9798233683305
- Date de parution24/01/2026
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- ÉditeurLinda Balsamo
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Jan Hus, Bohemian Warriors, and the First Protestant Reformation (1369-1620)Long before Martin Luther, a Czech priest named Jan Hus challenged papal authority and ignited a revolution that transformed European Christianity. Burned at the stake in 1415 for refusing to recant his beliefs, Hus became a martyr whose death sparked two centuries of religious warfare, innovation, and resistance that would reshape the medieval world.
This comprehensive narrative follows the Hussite movement from its origins in the golden age of Charles IV through the preaching of Jan Hus, the revolutionary Hussite Wars where peasant armies defeated five crusades using innovative military tactics, the fragile compromises that created Europe's first religious tolerance laws, and the catastrophic destruction at White Mountain in 1620. Along the way, readers encounter remarkable figures including the blind general Jan Zizka, the pacifist philosopher Petr Chelcický, the last Hussite king George of Podebrady, and the exiled educator Jan Amos Comenius.
Drawing on primary sources and recent scholarship, this book reveals how a small kingdom in Central Europe pioneered ideas about religious freedom, biblical authority, and resistance to tyranny that would influence the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and modern democratic thought. The Hussite motto "Truth Prevails" became the Czech national motto, symbolizing six centuries of struggle for conscience and liberty.
This comprehensive narrative follows the Hussite movement from its origins in the golden age of Charles IV through the preaching of Jan Hus, the revolutionary Hussite Wars where peasant armies defeated five crusades using innovative military tactics, the fragile compromises that created Europe's first religious tolerance laws, and the catastrophic destruction at White Mountain in 1620. Along the way, readers encounter remarkable figures including the blind general Jan Zizka, the pacifist philosopher Petr Chelcický, the last Hussite king George of Podebrady, and the exiled educator Jan Amos Comenius.
Drawing on primary sources and recent scholarship, this book reveals how a small kingdom in Central Europe pioneered ideas about religious freedom, biblical authority, and resistance to tyranny that would influence the Protestant Reformation, the Enlightenment, and modern democratic thought. The Hussite motto "Truth Prevails" became the Czech national motto, symbolizing six centuries of struggle for conscience and liberty.
