On Monday we mark a national holiday dedicated to the death of Jan Hus. His story, however, has long since crossed Czech ...
A service at Prague’s Bethlehem Chapel has marked the 611th anniversary of the death of church reformer Jan Hus, who preached there before being burned at the stake in Constance in 1415. Church ...
Prague at the end of the 14th century: King Wenceslas, his brother Sigismund, the Archbishop of Prague Zbynek and three popes are locked in a power struggle. All lay claim to influence over the Holy ...
The first part of the "Hussite Revolutionary Trilogy", completed with Jan Žižka (1955) and Proti všem (Against All Odds, 1957). The film captures the period from May 1412 to the summer of 1415, a ...
Jan Hus’s ideas were so sound, it’s amazing they were ever considered revolutionary. Jan Hus hoped his incendiary preaching and heated rebukes would purify a tainted church, but the flames consumed ...