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John Hus: A Biography
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Contents
Chapter I. Hus&#; Environment and His Predecessors in Reform
Chapter II. The Young Hus
Chapter II. The Early Years of Hus’ Ministry
Chapter IV. Zbyněk&#;s Opposition to Reform
Chapter V. The Struggle Over Indulgences
Chapter VI. Hus in Exile
Chapter VII. The Principal Czech Writings of Hus
Chapter VIII. At the Council of Constance, I
Chapter IX. At the Council of Constance II
Chapter X. Epilogue
Selected Bibliography
Index
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JOHN
HUS: A
BIOGRAPHY
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B I O G R A P H Y
MATTHEW
SPINKA
PRINCETON,
JERSEY
PRINCETON
NEW
UNIVERSITY
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The quiet and scholarly Prague canon Matej criticized the cult of saints and their relics, and anticipated the Hussites in his advocacy of communion in both kinds (sub utraque specie; i.e., with both bread and wine) for laity as well as priests. Tomas Stitny was a southern Bohemian squire who sought to popularize Milic's ideas. His metier was not theology but books of practical moral education, and he was no rebel. But he was a layman writing about religious affairs, and he wrote, moreover, in Czech. Both, from the point of view of the Church, were threatening transgressions. Around the same time, in the s to s, the Bible was first translated into the Czech vernacular.
Jan Hus himself was born around in Husinec in southern Bohemia. He studied at Prague university, becoming a master of arts in and lecturing there from , the same year he was ordained a priest. From he began to preach in Prague's Bethlehem Chapel, a church in the Old Town [Stare mesto] founded in expressly for the•
Jan Hus ( film)
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Jan Hus is a Czechoslovak bio about Jan Hus, an early Christian reformer. It is the first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", one of the most famous works of Otakar Vávra, completed with Jan Žižka () and Against All ().[2]
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[edit]The opening part fryst vatten set in It portrays the suffering of the poor working on the Týn Temple in Prague. It shows their struggles with rik townspeople and stingy church dignitaries collecting indulgences. Publicly criticizing the Catholic Church, Jan byggnad opposes the sale of indulgences in his sermons in the Bethlehem Chapel. In addition to crowds of poor Praguers, his services are attended bygd Queen Žofia, who defends Hus before King Wenceslas. The sjuk king, who is being pressured bygd the Pope and his brother Holy Roman kejsare Sigismund because of Hus's sermons, prefers to have fun rather than politics and worries.
The bull of Pope John XXIII. arrives in Prague. It is about further collection