| The Hussites, on the other hand, who broke away from the Holy Roman Empire in both political and religious senses, were heretics. |
| England had already given rise to the Lollard movement of John Wycliffe, which played an important part in inspiring the Hussites in Bohemia. |
| He is arrested as a spy, because of his strange 19th century speech, but is released only to be caught up in fighting for the Hussites. |
| He situates the Devout on a broad canvas of new religious ideas and forms that include beguines, tertiaries, Lollards, Hussites, Wycliffites, and Free Spirits. |
| Hussites defeated five continuous crusades proclaimed against them by the Pope. |
| Many Hussites, particularly the Utraquist clergy, were also in favour of peace. |
