Download e-book for iPad: The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418–1437: Sources by Thomas A. Fudge

this option of over 2 hundred texts, approximately all showing for the 1st time in English translation, presents a close-up examine the crusades opposed to the Hussite heretics of 15th-century Bohemia, from the viewpoint of the respectable Church - or at their struggles for non secular freedom, from the Hussites' personal standpoint. It additionally throws gentle at the that means of the crusading move and at the nature of war within the overdue center a long time. there's no unmarried documentary account of the clash, however the riveting occasions might be reconstructed from a variety of modern resources: chronicles, sermons, manifestos, songs, bulls, imperial correspondence, army and diplomatic communiqués, liturgy, army ordinances, alternate embargos, epic poems, letters from the sphere, Jewish files, speeches, synodal lawsuits, and records from popes, bishops, emperors and town councils. those texts display the fervour and effort of the crusaders but in addition their deep disunity, growing to be frustration and underlying fears - and in addition the heresy, decision and independence of the Hussites. 5 occasions the pass used to be preached and the drastically improved forces of the reputable church and the empire marched into Bohemia to suppress the peasant armies. 5 instances they have been humiliated and placed to flight.