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The Hussites have just achieved another great military victory. At Domažlice, they had defeated an Imperial Catholic crusaders` army. The Pope thought it was time for negotiations. The Hussite movement had spread to Poland and Silesia, and everywhere in Europe, the example of their successful struggle inspired both protestant sects and all sorts of political revolutionaries - from revolting peasants over the towns to the lesser nobility. |
The Hussites have just achieved another great military victory. At Domažlice, they had defeated an Imperial Catholic crusaders` army. The Pope thought it was time for negotiations. The Hussite movement had spread to Poland and Silesia, and everywhere in Europe, the example of their successful struggle inspired both protestant sects and all sorts of political revolutionaries - from revolting peasants over the towns to the lesser nobility. |
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| − | But then, a so-called "moderate" group, the Calixtians or they began to rename themselves, the Utraquists, whose support base were the urban elites of Prague, broke the alliance with the numerically dominant (peasant-based) so-called "radicals" and sought a compromise with Rome and the HRE. Only three years later at Lipany, Utraquists and imperial troops would defeat the "radicals", who were still led by Andry Prokop the Great, murder the prisoners of war and persecute the whole group. The utraquists would soon realise that they had been fooled, the toleration of their faith was taken back soon, and dreams of a Slavic self-governed Bohemia remained just that for another almost five centuries under the hegemony of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Hussites would remain merely a forerunner and an inspiration for the Reformation of the 16th century. |
+ | [[File:U_Domažlic.gif|thumb|Cardinal Cesarini retreating from Taus (Domazlice)]]But then, a so-called "moderate" group, the Calixtians or they began to rename themselves, the Utraquists, whose support base were the urban elites of Prague, broke the alliance with the numerically dominant (peasant-based) so-called "radicals" and sought a compromise with Rome and the HRE. Only three years later at Lipany, Utraquists and imperial troops would defeat the "radicals", who were still led by Andry Prokop the Great, murder the prisoners of war and persecute the whole group. The utraquists would soon realise that they had been fooled, the toleration of their faith was taken back soon, and dreams of a Slavic self-governed Bohemia remained just that for another almost five centuries under the hegemony of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Hussites would remain merely a forerunner and an inspiration for the Reformation of the 16th century. |
But what if Calixtians, Taborites and Orphans had decided to form a more durable confederacy instead? |
But what if Calixtians, Taborites and Orphans had decided to form a more durable confederacy instead? |
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Bohemia, 1431 CE:
The Hussites have just achieved another great military victory. At Domažlice, they had defeated an Imperial Catholic crusaders` army. The Pope thought it was time for negotiations. The Hussite movement had spread to Poland and Silesia, and everywhere in Europe, the example of their successful struggle inspired both protestant sects and all sorts of political revolutionaries - from revolting peasants over the towns to the lesser nobility.
Cardinal Cesarini retreating from Taus (Domazlice)
But then, a so-called "moderate" group, the Calixtians or they began to rename themselves, the Utraquists, whose support base were the urban elites of Prague, broke the alliance with the numerically dominant (peasant-based) so-called "radicals" and sought a compromise with Rome and the HRE. Only three years later at Lipany, Utraquists and imperial troops would defeat the "radicals", who were still led by Andry Prokop the Great, murder the prisoners of war and persecute the whole group. The utraquists would soon realise that they had been fooled, the toleration of their faith was taken back soon, and dreams of a Slavic self-governed Bohemia remained just that for another almost five centuries under the hegemony of the Habsburg Monarchy. The Hussites would remain merely a forerunner and an inspiration for the Reformation of the 16th century.
But what if Calixtians, Taborites and Orphans had decided to form a more durable confederacy instead?
I´m looking for people who are interested in developing this scenario - let`s write this timeline together!
Will Bohemia become a second Switzerland? Will the Catholic Slavs turn Protestant? Who, among the actual and potential powers in Europe, will the Confederacy ally themselves with? How will all this affect the Holy Roman Empire, the Papacy etc.? Will it change the fate of Christian Europe in the face of Ottoman expansion?
Salvador79 (talk) 21:39, May 11, 2015 (UTC)