Fin de l’Indépendance Bohême. Vol I. Georges de Podiébrad - Les Jagellons
End of Bohemian Independence. Vol I. Georges de Podiébrad - The Jagellons

Author(s): Ernest Denis
Subject(s): History, Political history, Middle Ages, 15th Century
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Jan Hus; Ptatchek de Pirkstein; Lev de Rozmital; Jan Hlavsa; Bohemian Brethren;
Summary/Abstract: In an earlier study, I wrote about the origins of the Hussite Reformation and the early struggles it sustained. I would like to tell one day the causes of the contemporary Renaissance, show the perseverance and heroic faith of Palatsky, his collaborators and his successors, the incredible difficulties overcome and the unexpected successes obtained. The task I undertake today is sadder: the Hussite and Protestant Reformation ends in abortion and disaster; What were the causes of this bankruptcy and the distant reasons for this defeat? By what faults did the Czechs deserve their misfortune? What was the share of responsibility of men and what, that of events? This is what I have tried to extract from the history of Bohemia in the 15th and 16th centuries.

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