Patron Saint and Prophet: Jan Hus in the Bohemian and German Reformations

The Bohemian preacher and religious reformer Jan Hus has been celebrated as a de facto saint since being burned at the stake as a heretic in 1415. By tracking the development of Hus's cult in fifteenth-century Bohemia and the nascent Lutheran church in the following century, this book offers a detailed analysis of the ways in which Bohemian and German religious reformers justified their dissent from the Roman Church by invoking the past.