Ep. 181: Hussite Revolt (1419-1434) - Zizka's Drum
History of the Germans
Dirk Hoffmann-Becking
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
“And anyone who would not want to keep and truly fulfill the above written pieces and articles, and would not want to help protect and defend them; such a one, without regard to person, we will not suffer amongst us and in this army fighting with God’s help, nor on the castles and in the fortresses, nor in the cities and in the towns, walled or open, nor in the villages and hamlets, no place excepted or exempted. But all persons we will everywhere admonish, advise, push, and urge toward this goodness with the help of our Lord God”
That is how the Statutes and Military Ordinance of Jan Zizka’s New Brotherhood sum up their mission. And by Jove, you do not want to be one of those who are admonished, advised, pushed and urged by this new model army. Which leaves the question, who are those who do not “keep the written articles”, and – spoiler alert -they are not just the Catholics.
From now on the “raging torrent of the revolution disgorges its quantum of corpses”
The music for the show is Flute Sonata in E-flat major, H.545 by Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach (or some claim it as BWV 1031 Johann Sebastian Bach) performed and arranged by Michel Rondeau under Common Creative Licence 3.0.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the history of the Germans, Episode 181, Gishka's Drum, which is also |
| 0:13.5 | episode 18 of Season 9, the Reformation before the Reformation. |
| 0:19.2 | And anyone who would not want to keep and truly fulfill the above written pieces and articles |
| 0:24.7 | and would not want to help protect and defend them, such a one without regard to person, |
| 0:30.2 | we will not suffer amongst us and in this army fighting with God's help. |
| 0:35.2 | Nor on the castles and in the fortresses, nor in the cities and in the towns |
| 0:39.3 | walled or open, nor in the villages and hamlets. No place accepted or exempted. But all persons we |
| 0:47.7 | will everywhere admonish, advise, push and urge towards this goodness with the help of our Lord God. |
| 0:57.0 | That is how the statutes and military ordnance of Jan Jishka's new brotherhood sums up its mission. |
| 1:05.0 | And by Jove, you do not want to be one of those who are admonished, advised, pushed and urged by this new model |
| 1:11.9 | army, which leaves the question, who are those who do not keep the written articles? |
| 1:18.3 | And spoiler alert, they are not all Catholics. |
| 1:23.0 | From now on, the raging torrent of the revolution disgorged its quantum of corpses. |
| 1:30.4 | But before we get to the point where Ark is set against Ark, there is my usual plea for |
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