1st Edition
The Crusade against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418–1437 Sources and Documents for the Hussite Crusades
Edited By Thomas A. Fudge
Copyright 2002
448 Pages
by
Routledge
446 Pages
by
Routledge
446 Pages
by
Routledge
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This selection of over 200 texts, nearly all appearing for the first time in English translation, provides a close-up look at the crusades against the Hussite heretics of 15th-century Bohemia, from the perspective of the official Church - or at their struggles for religious freedom, from the Hussites' own point of view. It also throws light on the meaning of the crusading movement and on the... Read more
Contents: Preface; Introduction; From the Council of Constance to war; The first crusade: Prague, 1420; The second crusade: Zatec, 1421; The third crusade: Kutná Hora to the Sázava, 1421-2; The fourth crusade: Tachov, 1427; The fifth crusade: Domazlice, 1431; New tactics: Basel to Sión, 1432-7; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Thomas A. Fudge is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand. His previous publications include The Magnificent Ride: The First Reformation in Hussite Bohemia (1998), also from Ashgate.
'... its 209 documents clearly fulfil an urgent need to widen access to primary sources for Hussite Bohemia.' History 'Once again Thomas A. Fudge has given us an important contribution to Hussite studies... Here he presents, for the most part for the first time in English, translations from more than 200 documents illustrating a wide range of elements related to the crusade against Hussite heretics in fifteenth-century Bohemia.' Slavonic and East European Review 'There is no doubt that Fudge has done a great service in providing university teachers with an exceptional tool for presenting an important field of crusade studies to their undergraduate students. At the same time, the collection will serve researchers whose linguistic competence does not stretch to languages such as Polish, Czech or Hebrew, of which there are many, to acquire a taste and gain an insight into the wealth of different sources available for the history of the crusades against the Hussites.' Crusades '... the availability of translations of the Czech material will be widely welcomed... Dr Fudge's efforts to select material adequately covering the period, while using diverse sources, have been successful.' Catholic Historical Review
