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English and Čech Influences on the Husite Movement
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This paper is a preliminary study of the relative indebtedness of the Husite movement in Bohemia to the English reformers of the latter half of the fourteenth century on the one hand, and the native Čech predecessors of Hus on the other; but it will also raise questions of historical method and of the influence of nationalism on modern historiography, which will perhaps justify the infliction on you of a subject remote from the topics usually discussed by this Society, and one which you will perhaps deem arid and uninvitingly recondite in itself.
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