Hussitism

Huss·ite

(hŭs′īt′, ho͝os′-)

A follower of the religious reformer John Hus.

adj.

Of or relating to John Hus or his religious theories.

Huss′it′ism n.

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Hussitism

the doctrines of a reformist and nationalistic movement initiated by John Huss in Bohemia about 1402, especially its reflection of Wycliffite emphases upon clerical purity, communion in both bread and wine for the laity, and the supreme authority of the Scriptures. Also Hussism. — Hussite, n., adj.

See also: Protestantism

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However, some generalizations made by historians, such as Roger Portal on hussitism, causes the disappearing of some subjects because they were not 'originals'.

'Minor' educator before comenius: Petr Chelcicky's pacifism/Um educador 'menor' antes de comenius: o pacifismo de Petr Chelcicky/Un educador 'menor' antes de comenius: el pacifismo de Petr Chelcicky

Over the past two decades Thomas Fudge has established himself as one of the leading authorities on the early fifteenth-century Bohemian heretic-martyr, Jan Hus and the eponymous central European, pre-Reformation, religious reform movement, Hussitism. In a steady stream of articles and monographs, Fudge has systematically mined the primary material (Hus's writings alone run to more than twenty-five volumes) and assimilated voluminous secondary and ancillary literature in Latin, Czech, and German.

Fudge, Thomas A., The Memory and Motivation of Jan Hus, Medieval Priest and Martyr

The Czech Brethren, who settled down in Great Poland after 1548, had their origins in moderate Hussitism, and their confession tended toward Calvinism.

From the "Land of Diverse Sects" to National Religion: Converts to Catholicism and Reformed Franciscans in Early Modern Poland

However, the Czech flame flickered silently until it came to the surface in the pre-Reformation movement known as Hussitism in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.