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The Medieval Church · 1420

The Four Articles of Prague

The Hussites of Prague

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What it is

Four demands: free preaching of the word, communion in both kinds for the laity, clergy stripped of worldly property, and public sins punished regardless of rank.

Why it lasted

The programme a Bohemian nation went to war for and defended through five crusades — the first successful armed defence of a reform movement in Europe.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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