Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1851 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER II. BOHEMIA. Origin of its name and early history--Conversion to Christianity--Waldensians in that country--Reign of the Emperor Charles the Fourth--John IIuss, and his character--He becomes the leader of the National party at the University of Prague--Ilia triumph over the German party, and its consequences--Influence of Wicklyffe's doctrines upon Huss--Principal cause of the success obtained by him--Specimen of his style of preaching--Political state of Bohemia at the time of IIuss--The Archbishop of Prague orders to burn the works of Wicklyffe, and excommunicates Huss--Huss is cited by the Pope to appear before his tribunal at Rome--IIuss begins to preach against the papal indulgences, and is excommunicated by the Papal legate--Council of Constance--His arrival at Constance--His imprisonment--The emperor, after having opposed the violation of his safe-conduct, is persuaded by the fathers of the Council to abandon IIuss--Effect produced in Bohemia by the imprisonment of Huss--Trial and defence of Huss--His condemnation--His execution--Trial and execution of Jerome of Prague. Bohemia, although of comparatively small extent, occupies a prominent place in the religious history of Europe. Its geographical position, which forms a kind of Slavonic wedge entering the German body, as well as the strong spirit of nationality which animates her Slavonic population, and which centuries of oppression have been unable to destroy, must make that country an object of particular interest to all those who are not indifferent to the progress of mankind. Nowhere, perhaps, has the influence of religious opinions on the national development, and vice versa, been so strikingly illustrated as by the history of that country, small in extent, but great...
