Chapters: 15th-Century Protestant Martyrs, Jan Hus, John Oldcastle, Jerome of Prague. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 29. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Jan Hus aka Jan Huss, John Hus, John Huss (Czech pronunciation: ca. 1369 Husinec, Bohemia 6 July 1415 Konstanz, Germany), often referred to in English as John Huss or variations thereof, was a Czech priest, philosopher, reformer, and master at Charles University in Prague. He is famed for having been burned at the stake by civil authorities for the propagation of what the Catholic Church considered to be his heretical views of ecclesiology, the Eucharist, and other points of theology, as the civil authorities of that time generally saw heresy as a criminal offense. Hus was a key predecessor to the Protestant movement of the 16th century, and his teachings had a strong influence on the states of Europe, most immediately in the approval for the existence of a reformist Bohemian religious denomination, and, more than a century later, on Martin Luther himself. Between 1420 and 1431, the Hussite forces defeated five consecutive papal crusades against followers of Hus. Their defense and rebellion against Roman Catholics became known as the Hussite Wars. In 1394, Anne of Bohemia, who was a wife of Richard II, King of England, died, and her servants returned to their native Bohemia. In England they had been influenced by the teachings of John Wycliffe and with them they brought back to Bohemia the teaching of Wycliffe. Jan Hus heard these doctrines and embraced them. Once Hus adopted Wycliffe's ideas, he proposed to reform the church in Bohemia just as Wycliffe had in England. While some of his followers became known as Hussites, his more radical followers were called Taborites. The Taborites rejected all teachings that were not Biblic...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=16028