[30] Letter to the "disciple Martin," dated October 10th, 1414, printed in _Documenta Mag. Joannis Hus Vitam Doctrinam, Causam Illustrantia_. I have based this summary account of the career of Hus mainly on this important collection of documents, published by Palacký in 1869. [31] This sermon was probably not preached at "Bethlehem," but at the Church of St. Michael at Prague; for the events referred to occurred in 1401, while Hus was only appointed preacher at "Bethlehem" in 1402. He may, however, have preached there occasionally before that date. [32] Palacký, _Documenta_, &c. [33] Palacký, _Documenta_. [34] Palacký, _Documenta_. [35] Palacký, _Documenta_. [36] Palacký, _Documenta_. [37] _Stařr Letopisove Cešti_ (Ancient Bohemian Chronicles). See Chapter IV. [38] Palacký, _Documenta_, gives the names of the speakers and the list of the works they defended. [39] See later, page 131. [40] Palacký, _Documenta_. [41] Palacký, _Documenta_. [42] Printed in Palacký, _Documenta_. [43] See Chapter IV. [44] The passage which Hus had in view is in the Gospel of St. Matthew, chap. xxvi. vers. 26-28. [45] Mladenovič in Palacký, _Documenta_. [46] I have borrowed this summary of the contents of the treatise _De Ecclesia_ from my _Bohemia: an Historical Sketch_. [47] See later, page 125. [48] An allusion to the story of Pope Joan. [49] _Výklad_, _i.e._ "Exposition of the Ten Commandments," chap. xliii. [50] St. Luke xxii. 38. [51] This refers to the allegation that Albík of Uničov, the successor of Archbishop Zbyněk, had paid a large sum for his investiture with the Archbishopric of Prague. [52] This refers to Stephen Paleč and other former adherents of Hus who had deserted the cause of Church reform. [53] See Chapter VI. CHAPTER IV THE PERIOD OF THE HUSSITE WARS The death, or, as his adherents considered it, the murder of Hus was followed by prolonged bloody wars, during which Bohemia, for a time, successfully repelled the forces of a large part of Europe. Such a period was naturally not fruitful of literary production. The writers deal almost exclusively with theology, and are, with a few very noteworthy exceptions, of secondary importance. This applies specially to the very numerous theological tracts or pamphlets, the names of which Jungmann has, in his great History of Bohemian Literature, rescued from oblivion.