Hussites
Sign in to savethumb|upright=1.2|Battle between Hussites (left) and Crusades#Campaigns against heretics and schismatics|Catholic crusaders in the 15th century thumb|upright=1.2|The Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the Hussite Wars. The movement began during the [[Renaissance in Prague and quickly spread south and then through the rest of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Eventually, it expanded into the remaining domains of the Bohemian Crown as well.]] The Hussites (Czech: Husité or Kališníci, "Chalice People"; Latin: Hussitae) were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement influenced by both the Byzantine Rite a
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The Hussites were a Czech Christian movement that began in 15th-century Prague during the Renaissance and spread throughout the Kingdom of Bohemia and beyond, eventually leading to armed conflicts with Catholic crusaders. The movement was significant enough to spark wars and represented an early challenge to the Catholic Church's authority before the later Protestant Reformation.
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14 sectionsContents
- History
- Hus's death
- Hussite Wars (1419–1434)
- Council of Basel and Compacta of Prague
- Hussite Bohemia, Luther and the Reformation (1434–1618)
- Bohemian Revolt and harsh persecution under the Habsburgs (1618–1918)
- Post-Habsburg era and modern times (1918–present)
- Factions
- Moderates {{Anchor|Four Articles of Prague}}
- Radicals
- See also
- References
- Bibliography
- External links
thumb|upright=1.2|Battle between Hussites (left) and Crusades#Campaigns against heretics and schismatics|Catholic crusaders in the 15th century thumb|upright=1.2|The Lands of the Bohemian Crown during the Hussite Wars. The movement began during the [[Renaissance in Prague and quickly spread south and then through the rest of the Kingdom of Bohemia. Eventually, it expanded into the remaining domains of the Bohemian Crown as well.]] The Hussites (Czech: Husité or Kališníci, "Chalice People"; Latin: Hussitae) were a Czech proto-Protestant Christian movement influenced by both the Byzantine Rite and John Wycliffe that followed the teachings of reformer Jan Hus (fl. 1401–1415), a part of the Bohemian Reformation.
The Czech lands had originally been Christianized by Byzantine Greek missionaries Saints Cyril and Methodius, who introduced the Byzantine Rite in the Old Church Slavonic liturgical language and the Byzantine tradition of Communion in both kinds administered by the holy spoon. Over the centuries that followed, however, the Roman Rite in Ecclesiastical Latin, which is less easily understood than Slavonic by native speakers of Old Czech, was imposed upon the Czech people despite considerable public resistance, by German-speaking bishops, beginning with Wiching, from the Holy Roman Empire. (See also Sázava Monastery.) As a cultural memory of both communion in both kinds and the Divine Liturgy in a language closer to the vernacular is believed to have survived well into the Renaissance, the ideas of Jan Hus and others like him swiftly gained a wide public following. After the trial and execution of Hus at the Council of Constance, a series of crusades, civil wars, victories and compromises between various factions with different theological agendas broke out. At the end of the Hussite Wars (1420–1434), the now Catholic-supported Utraquist side came out victorious from protracted conflict against Jan Žižka and the Taborites, who embraced the more radical theological teachings of John Wycliffe and the Lollards, and became the dominant Hussite group in Bohemia.