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George Of Bohemia: King Of Heretics

Frederick G. Heymann

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Description:"The enormous impact of the death of a single man, though not infrequently paralleled, has rarely been surpassed," writes Frederick Heymann of the sudden denouement of the great historical drama that is the subject of this book. The premature death of King George, who had gained national power as a young Czech nobleman through his leadership of the Utraquist Party, came at the crucial moment not only in his own career and in Czech national history but in the armed struggle between lay and ecclesiastical rule. This "King of Heretics" as the Roman Catholic Church called him, the last Czech to wear the ancient crown of Saint Wenceslas, is studied here in the light of primary sources—his vigorous program of reconstruction after the long period of interregnum and anarchy that preceded his election, his consolidation of royal power within a constitutional framework, his conduct of the Great War in which Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, played sword-bearer for the church. Beset by an antagonistic papacy, a strong Catholic minority, rebellion among his barons, and the ambitions of neighboring states, he achieved the near miracle of victory just before his death in 1471.In spite of other losses which George's death precipitated, Mr. Heymann shows that the Czech Reformation persisted and survived in the development of later reform ideas in Germany and Switzerland. the book's interest for students of political and church history is further enhanced by the inclusion of a comprehensive bibliography on Bohemia and related aspects of Central European history in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Frederick G. Heyman, whose John Žižka and the Hussite Revolution was published by the Princeton University Press in 1955, is Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Alberta, Calgary, Canada.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with George Of Bohemia: King Of Heretics. To get started finding George Of Bohemia: King Of Heretics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 671

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Release: 1965

ISBN: 0691051224

Description: "The enormous impact of the death of a single man, though not infrequently paralleled, has rarely been surpassed," writes Frederick Heymann of the sudden denouement of the great historical drama that is the subject of this book. The premature death of King George, who had gained national power as a young Czech nobleman through his leadership of the Utraquist Party, came at the crucial moment not only in his own career and in Czech national history but in the armed struggle between lay and ecclesiastical rule. This "King of Heretics" as the Roman Catholic Church called him, the last Czech to wear the ancient crown of Saint Wenceslas, is studied here in the light of primary sources—his vigorous program of reconstruction after the long period of interregnum and anarchy that preceded his election, his consolidation of royal power within a constitutional framework, his conduct of the Great War in which Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, played sword-bearer for the church. Beset by an antagonistic papacy, a strong Catholic minority, rebellion among his barons, and the ambitions of neighboring states, he achieved the near miracle of victory just before his death in 1471.In spite of other losses which George's death precipitated, Mr. Heymann shows that the Czech Reformation persisted and survived in the development of later reform ideas in Germany and Switzerland. the book's interest for students of political and church history is further enhanced by the inclusion of a comprehensive bibliography on Bohemia and related aspects of Central European history in the third quarter of the fifteenth century. Frederick G. Heyman, whose John Žižka and the Hussite Revolution was published by the Princeton University Press in 1955, is Chairman of the Department of History at the University of Alberta, Calgary, Canada.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with George Of Bohemia: King Of Heretics. To get started finding George Of Bohemia: King Of Heretics, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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