John Huss (Jan Hus): the reformer who inspired Martin Luther

This film explores the geopolitical situation of the late medieval period wherein an enabled papacy, thanks to its projection of spiritual authority onto temporal powers, became increasingly political and corrupt. With the advent of climate change that caused the little ice age in the early 1300's, there followed the great famine of 1315 that killed a quarter of Europe's population, as well as causing a collapse of the livestock, grain supply and local economies for decades. Just as they began to recover, Europe was then hit by the Black Death (or Bubonic Plague) in 1346, which caused the death of upwards of half the remaining population. Labour shortages then caused peasant and working class unrest, as well as a growing sense that the end of the world was coming. Both they and the professors in the universities, squarely viewed the church, its endemic corruption and the scandal of first, the Avignon Papal "Babylonian Captivity" and then the subsequent Great Schism that saw multiple competing anti-popes, as being in need of serious reform. In England, John Wycliff began his series of tirades against the pope in Rome, while in Bohemia, nationalist stirrings by an oppressed Czech population led to a similar movement led by priest and university professor Jan Hus (or John Huss). His betrayal, eventual burning at the stake in 1415 and subsequent mass uprising by his Hussite followers set off shockwaves throughout Europe that would eventually lead Martin Luther, a hundred years later, to begin the Protestant Revolution.
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[ondrejvasak]

Excellent documentary. I love how much context - geopolitical, societal and climate related you give to set up the period. This is how history is supposed to be learned if we ever hope to understand our ancestor's actions and motivations.

[TrainLordJC]

Having spent many years reading up on the fascinating subject of history and having also spent many years travelling around the world visiting historical places such as battlesights, fortresses, castles, palaces as well as wandering around the old walls of such medieval towns like Rothenburg an de Tauber it is an absolute delight to listen to all your videos that add so much extra detail to the mostly facts from history books. Some of the sordid, but very much human attributes, with a generosity of your humour adds to the enjoyment. Your approximately one hour videos etc add lots of great information and is a wonderful revision for me. And once again it just shows the folly of man in general, greed, lust for power no matter the consequences and everything else associated with the intricacies of human behaviour all come out in your very interesting and informative shows. Keep up the good work. You will have no end of subject matter relating to this topic. Greetings from the Train Lord in South Australia.

[caroliner]

I was absolutely rivetted to this documentary.
What a great champion of truth Jan Huss was, and what incredible courage he showed standing up to the Catholic church.
He held his ground on his irrefutable points of contention "show me where in the Scriptures I am in error", and endured a horrific death.
I don't know if I'd be so brave in his situation. I hope that I would.

The Queen of Bohemia reminds me of Queen Katherine Parr, with her intellect and that she was drawn to the truth of Protestantism.

I didn't know anything about Jan Huss before watching this, but I look forward to seeing him in heaven, and cheering for his faithfulness to the Lord Jesus when he stands before Him at the Bema Seat of Christ, and receives his rewards.

The Popes on the whole were a disgrace. Those who weren't corrupt were mysteriously unalived.

I was given Dave Hunt's book 'A Woman Rides the Beast' for Christmas, and it's engrossing. It describes the woman in scarlet riding the Beast in the book of Revelation....and I can't see how it's not the Catholic church.... she's drunk on the blood of the saints.

Thank you so much for sharing this with us.🇦🇺

[ACVoaMHeraldforTheKING]

Thanks for recommending this vid from our other comment interaction. Good one.

[danielzuro]

What a docco!!! It literally opens the door into what happens next... Martin Luther through to Napoleon and all the European kerfuffele in between. I have never looked into central Europe's involvement into the schism but it did answer a few questions and ask a few more about how what got to where. Brilliant, absolutely brilliant deliverance of historical facts. I almost wish it was a video game to be able to be a part of it. Thanks for taking the time into making this, it is the small video producers that make the best content.

[peterbeyer]

Imagine being preached to in a language that you don’t understand, not being able to read the bible, being taxed by the Church whose language you don’t understand and suspected of being corrupt and being at the mercy of those who could imprison, torture and kill you under command of God.

[heroesandlegends]

For an audio-narration only version of this video, Please visit the Heroes and Legends Documentary Channel Podcast, through Spotify and other leading broadcasters. Thanks for supporting my channel, and enjoy!

[SmellyBushPig]

great docos. may your channel grow and reward you monetarily.

[Coney_Tony]

Who else came here cause of Kingdom come deliverance

[allnationsseer]

Thanks for this video. Fascinating page of history- what a bold man to stick to his conscience. Good example.

[Prometheus]

As a Czech, I am proud of Master Jan Hus

[chrisrosenkreuz]

for those that want to experience the day of jan hus they should play kingdom come deliverance, he is the teacher of one of the characters in that highl immersive rpg sim game

[abutterflysmusicbox]

Hi! I couldn’t find the blog article mentioning your sources. I would love to do more research on the topics mentioned in this video. It would be really helpful if you could give me a list of articles you used for your research! Thank you in advance 😊

[Rinahoidhche]

The Hussite Wars sound fascinating. I had no idea the Czechs had such an interesting history.

[TomMason-ioyn]

Unified in the Spirit of truth and not mere compromise as the pope would have it

[adamwalker]

Love all your videos! Small request: Can you put a link to your other channel on your About/Channel page? I remember learning about it when you shared it on another video's comments.. but I cannot remember what it was called! I would really like to check it out. Thankyou and please keep your content coming!

[jankolman]

Queen Anne of England, daughter of Charles IV and sister of Wenceslas IV, brought her Bible translated into Czech to England (this translation was initiated by her father Charles IV) and wanted to learn English from the Bible translated into English, but such a translation did not exist, so she initiated it and, among other things, became a protector of John Wycliffe. At the same time, she initiated an exchange of students between Oxford and Prague universities, which led to the transfer of John Wycliffe's ideas to Prague, where the ground was prepared for this thanks to the spiritual awakening in the time of Charles IV (the Waldensian exiles from France and Italy, reformers from Austria, Bavaria and Saxony, home preachers and an even older tradition of piety from the time of Great Moravia were heading here). Prague was then one of the largest cities in Europe, among other things it was larger than London (but Kutná Hora was also larger than London). After the death of John Wycliffe, the Lollards, followers of John Wycliffe, headed to Prague - one of them, Peter Payne, became an important Hussite and significantly participated in the documents defining the Hussite movement and their transmission to, among others, Sigismund of Luxembourg. The subsequent Hussite movement led to great economic damage, but it also brought Protestant ideas leading to a great economic boom in the Czech lands in the 16th century (the Renaissance period - Prague, under Rudolf II, even doubled in population compared to the time of Charles IV and had 100 thousand inhabitants and still remained one of the largest European cities). This spiritual foundation (emphasis on morality, education, justice, hard work and equality of men and women), at the origin of which, among others, the Hussites stood, then also led to a great economic boom in the 19th century (when the surrounding countries, such as Bavaria and Austria, untouched by the Reformation to such an extent, remained poor until the 20th century).

[mortimusmaximus]

Jan Žižka would take revenge, on Sigismund, a hundred times. 🙏

[jacobstewart]

Awesome presentation. I wish you had included more nuance about indulgences.

Indulgences did not prevent someone from going to hell. They provided a pool of merit that would shorten time in purgatory and thus speed up someone’s journey to paradise. The distinction is important. Under the Roman system, the mass, obedience to the pope and magistrates of the church, baptism, confession, professed faith in Jesus and good works were all necessary for salvation. but various other things could earn merit (such as buying indulgences).

[MadMax-bqpg]

I heard that “Nobody expected…” you Monty Python infiltrator 🤣