Ep. 182: Hussite Revolt (1419-1434) - Sigismund Returns to Bohemia
History of the Germans
Dirk Hoffmann-Becking
4.9 • 550 Ratings
🗓️ 20 February 2025
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
We have a tendency to overlook the history of the smaller European nations even though they do quite often provide the laboratory where one could have seen the sign of things to come or calamities that could be avoided. One of these nations is Czechia, where events took place that could, should or did impact the History of the Germans, in 1989, in 1968, in 1938, in 1618 and in 1419-1437. Today we will talk about the very last one on this list, the moment when a complete confessional split was prevented, something Martin Luther, emperor Charles V and pope Leo X so disastrously failed to manage a hundred years later.
I will also provide links in the show notes to books or podcasts relating to the other events in case you want to read ahead:
Genscher in Prag - ein Polit-Krimi – DW – 30.09.2019
Eyewitness to the 1968 Prague Spring – Cold War Conversations Podcast
Robert Harris: Munich
WDFpodcast.com 30 Years War Series
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the history of the Germans, Episode 182, the Return of the King, |
| 0:12.9 | which is also episode 19 of Season 9, the Reformation before the Reformation. |
| 0:19.5 | We have a tendency to overlook the history of the smaller European nations, even though |
| 0:24.1 | they do quite often provide a laboratory where one could have seen the signs of things |
| 0:28.4 | to come or of calamities that could have been avoided. |
| 0:32.5 | And one of these nations is Czechia, where events took place that could, should or did impact the history of the |
| 0:38.7 | Germans in 1989, in 1968, in 1938, in 1938, and in 141918, and in 1419 to 1437. |
| 0:48.9 | Today we'll talk about the very last one on this list, the moment when a complete confessional split |
| 0:55.0 | was prevented, something Martin Luther, Emperor Charles V and Pope Leo the 10th, so disastously |
| 1:01.1 | failed to manage a hundred years later. I will also provide links in the show notes to books |
| 1:06.8 | or podcasts relating to the other events, just in case you want to read ahead. |
| 1:15.3 | But before we start, just another very important warning. |
| 1:20.9 | If you want to sign up on Patreon rather than on my recently revamped history of the Germans.com slash support website, be very, very careful, not to do it on the Patreon app on your iPhone. |
| 1:29.1 | If you sign up using your iPhone, |
| 1:37.2 | Apple will add a shocking 30% surcharge to your contribution, which also attracts tax. That comes on top of an 8% Patreon chart, a 10 plus 1% PayPal chart plus tax. What that means is that if you sign up on the highest, |
| 1:46.4 | a courfussed level, as one listener so kindly did yesterday, you may be charged $15 per month, |
| 1:53.5 | of which I will receive only $9.58, and that's before they rip me off on the exchange rate. |
| 2:00.8 | If you were making that same off on the exchange rate. |
| 2:04.5 | If you were making that same contribution on the history of the Germans.com slash support page, my total expense would be 4%, meaning I would receive $14.40 and $40 |
| 2:11.0 | from this exceedingly generous patron. |
| 2:15.3 | Note that the 30% surcharge only applies to new patrons and only if you use the Patreon |
| 2:21.1 | app on your iPhone. |
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