The Hussites were a religious movement that was based on the ideas of Jan Hus in 15th century Bohemia. Read about the movement and its legacy in this article.
Video taken from the Summer Music Courses in July 2014 in Chýnov Church (South Bohemia), just a few kilometers from Tábor, the city which is the most related...
ST. JOHN SARCANDER, PRIEST AND MARTYR, Martyred foe of the Hussites. He was born on December 20 at Skotschau, in Austrian Silesia, and educated at Prague. He was ordained in 1607 and served in various parishes, defending the faith against the Hussites. Mar.17
Crusades against the Hussites, the 'pre-protestant' Christians lasted nearly 15 years. I tried to recreate a battle scene between them and the knights of the Bohemian Crown. The Hussites had plenty of early firearms and canons such has small Howitzers and hand held canons.
folio 140r, the battle of Kratzau, with Hans von Polenz (the captain of the Silesian army) and his forces overwhelming those of the Hussites and their armoured carriages in a bloody battle (11 November 1429) c.1440-50. Eberhard Windeck: Das Buch von Kaiser Sigismund. Kaiser Sigismunds Buch by Eberhard Windeck.
Hermann von Harras (+1451), Thomaskirche, Leipzig, Sachsen. He fought with his brother Werner in the battle of Sellnitz in 1438 against the Hussites where he was knighted before the battle along with Kurfürst Friedrich von Sachsen, and Nickel von Pflug. He also fought in the Saxon 'War of the two brothers' from 1446-1451 where at one point he burned down 60 villages as a petty act of vengeance against the house of Vitzthum. His effigy highly probably post-dates his death by at least two decades.
Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages, Ian Christopher Levy, All participants in late medieval debates recognized Holy Scripture as the principal authority in matters of Catholic doctrine. Popes, theologians, lawyers—all were bound by the divine truth it conveyed. Yet the church possessed no absolute means of determining the final authoritative meaning of the biblical text—hence the range of appeals to antiquity, to the papacy, and to councils, none of which were ultimately conclusive. Authority in the late medieval church was a vexing issue precisely because it was not resolved. Ian Christopher Levy’s book focuses on the quest for such authority between 1370 and 1430, from John Wyclif to Thomas Netter, thereby encompassing the struggle over Holy Scripture waged between Wycliffites and Hussites on the one hand, and their British and Continental opponents on the other. Levy demonstrates that the Wycliffite/Hussite “heretics” and their opponents—the theologians William Woodford, Thomas Netter, and Jean Gerson—in fact shared a large and undisputed common ground. They held recognized licenses of expertise, venerated tradition, esteemed the church fathers, and embraced Holy Scripture as the ultimate authority in Christendom. What is more, they utilized similar hermeneutical strategies with regard to authorial intention, the literal sense, and the appeal to the fathers and holy doctors in order to open up the text. Yet it is precisely this commonality, according to Levy, that rendered the situation virtually intractable; he argues that the erroneous assumption persists today that Netter and Gerson spoke for “the church,” whereas Wyclif and Hus sought to destroy it. Levy’s sophisticated study in historical theology, which reconsiders the paradigm of heresy and orthodoxy, offers a necessary adjustment in our view of church authority at the turn of the fifteenth century. , Book2look: The state of the art online marketing tool for publishers and self-publishers: Make the point of discovery the point of sale. The unique look inside solution for your retail partners, authors and influencers. A book discovery tool for books in all Social Networks.
