Many Hussites, particularly the Utraquist clergy, were also in favour of peace. |
The wars ended in 1436 with the ratification of the compromise Compacts of Basel by the Church and the Hussites. |
Hussites defeated five continuous crusades proclaimed against them by the Pope. |
The second half of the book surveys lay renewal movements from the second century, through the medieval Waldensians and Hussites, to the Anabaptists and Pietists. |
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. |