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Article: Hussites
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- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
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HUSSITES
HUSSITES.
The Hussite revolution was a protest movement for sociopolitical freedom and religious reform in fifteenth-century Bohemia. Visible in several manifestations prior to the Thirty Years' War, the term identifies followers of the martyred priest Jan Hus (c. 1372/73
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1415), whose distinguishing and unconventional practices involved celebrating the Eucharist in species of both bread and wine.
The instability of the House of Luxembourg in Prague and repeated interference by Sigismund, aspiring Holy Roman emperor, created political uncertainty. Ecclesiastical affairs were no better; the papal schism directly affected Prague, and Czech resentment toward foreign ...