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The Hussites

Book information

Publisher
Amsterdam University Press, ARC
Year
2019
ISBN
9781641891639
DOI
10.1515/9781641891639
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1377769 bytes)
Pages
112\112
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-20 05:45:35

Description

The Hussite movement was a historical watershed, in which popular and scholastic theology combined with a nascent Czech nationalism to produce a full-scale social revolution that presaged the Protestant Reformation and the birth of the modern nation state. The Hussites defeated the forces of the Empire and the Pope, and their king George Poděbrady was the first to advocate a trans-national European state. Jan Hus is remembered as a martyr for church reform, but his colleagues formulated a theology that scholars are now recognizing to have had influence on Luther and the birth of Protestantism. Another Bohemian associated with the movement, Petr Chelčický, was the first to advocate a radical pacifist Christian anarchism. This survey introduces the reader to the events, people, and ideas that define this remarkable movement.

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