When their victory at the battle of Prague turned into defeat, the radical wing of the Hussites asked why? Why are we now persecuted when we had won the battles, when we are the ones following the example of the Apostles and when we are adhering to scripture? 🧵(1/

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Been there, done that. Cannot recommend. One star.

Thinking about...apples? Skulptur, Tödlein-Schrein, Tödleinschrein | Schloss Ambras Innsbruck

That sounds like something I would be very keen on..

Archduke Ferdinand II even had a special grotto of Bacchus for his drinking sessions where the chair would likely be used....beats the gift wrapping rooms so popular amongst the billionaire class today.

Two additional springs, concealed in the side arms of the backrest, could immobilize the participant's upper arms. The person would only be released after passing a drinking challenge. (3/

Anyone who sat on the so-called "trap chair" would be unexpectedly caught by a spring mechanism hidden beneath the seat. This mechanism responded to pressure, releasing two gripping arms that clasped the seated person's thighs.... (2/

This is a "Fangstuhl" an elaborate 16th century practical joke and drinking game... It is in the astounding collection of art and curiosa at Schloss Ambras near Innsbruck. I stumbled across it when I was looking for images of Jan Zizka. Here is how it works.....🧵

I promised to talk about Jan Zizka, “severe avenger of the pride and greed of the clergy” for three episodes and finally got round to doing it!

If you want to find out how this demand for church reform resulted in a full-blown revolution, listen to the History of the Germans Podcast, episodes 175 following. You can find those on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube or here: https://t.co/YuReTbsED4

ome were still alive when they were thrown down, others were beheaded first. This was done primarily at a place the mountain men called Tabor.” The chronicler goes on to say that a total of 1,600 Hussites were killed in that way “in a short period of time”. (5/

These people of Kutna Hora, being Germans, cruel persecutors of the Czechs, [..] inflicted various blasphemies and different manners of torture on them, inhumanely threw them down into very deep pits, or mine shafts, primarily at night. (4/

“..enemies of the truth inflicted on the [Hussite] Czechs the theft of property, cruel manners of captivity, hunger, thirst, and bodily slaughter. [..] They turned them over to the miners of Kutná Hora, and some were indeed sold to them. (3/

During the Hussite Revolt, when many people in Bohemia stood up against the catholic church and demanded religious freedom, Kutná Hora became a centre of Catholic repression. Here is how the chronicler Lawrence of Březová described what happened: (2/

The city of Kutná Hora in Czechia has a serious bent towards the morbid with its bone church. Whilst these bones are remnants of people who had chosen to be buried in this church, there is also a darker part of the history of this great centre of silver mining. 🧵(1/

If you want to hear how and who was crucial in devising the means of their survival and ultimate success, listen to the latest season of the History of the Germans Podcast, specifically episode 177 – the Day after the End of Days. https://t.co/aLlU0Ov1hF

Though we all know that the world did not end on February 14th, 1420, as the Taborite priests had predicted, there was still a major change is under way. These ordinary people have to face up against the greatest military forces of the Middle Ages, armies of armoured knights..(8/

Such horrors and betrayal can only be explained by divine or devilish intervention. Which is why the Second coming seemed to be imminent. And it would not be nice...(7/

Many of these men (and women) had run into can(n)on fire across the Charles Bridge in Prague to defend their right to live by the words of the New Testament and to receive the bread and wine at the eucharist. (5/

The answer is political as well as religious. This is the time of the Hussite revolt when for the first time in European history a reformist movement aimed to take the reins of power. (4/