Episode 5.7 - The Hussite Wars Part 2 - Jan Zizka

The Hussites, now fighting both the Catholic Church and the Holy Roman Empire, find the leader they need to survive against impossible odds in Jan Zizka. Zizka was an incredible commander, who never lost a battle, and helped lay the groundwork for two centuries of a semi-independent Bohemian Church.

Sources:

• Hrabě František Lützow, The Hussite Wars

• John Klassen, “Hus, The Hussites and Bohemia”, The New Cambridge Medieval History

• R. Urbanek and N.B.Jobson, “Jan Zizka, the Hussite”, The Slavonic Review

• R.R. Betts, “Social and Constitutional Development in Bohemia in the Hussite Period”, Past & Present/Oxford Journals

• Radio Praha

Names Mentioned:

• Jan Hus

• Jogaila

• King Sigismund

• Sigismund Korybut

• Vytautus