'The Shouting Hus': Heresy Appropriated as Propaganda in the Sixteenth Century

Title
'The Shouting Hus': Heresy Appropriated as Propaganda in the Sixteenth Century
Publication Date
1996
Author(s)
Fudge, Thomas
( author )
OrcID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1979-9663
Email: tfudge@une.edu.au
UNE Id une-id:tfudge
Type of document
Journal Article
Language
en
Entity Type
Publication
Publisher
Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Evangelicka Teologicka Fakulta [Charles University in Prague, Protestant Theological Faculty]
Place of publication
Czech Republic
UNE publication id
une:15456
Abstract
On 6 July, 1415 the Prague university professor, parish priest and condemned heretic Jan Hus was executed by order of the Council of Constance. He died singing. The grotesque comedy of a man wearing a dunce cap standing on a burning pyre chained to a post transmitted enough raw emotion to influence an entire nation. The result was the Bohemian Reformation and the Hussite Revolution. The blood of the martyr produced seed. The ink of the scholar brought forth substance and the 'man' made 'saint' in the hands of others gave birth to a myth that whispered in Prague, sang in Constance and shouted across Europe.
Link
Citation
Communio Viatorum, XXXVIII [38](3), p. 197-231
ISSN
0010-3713
Start page
197
End page
231

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