There seems to be good reason for not overloading this relatively slight book with too many references. In the first place many of the texts are not easily accessible to the English reader. The standard histories of the Council of Constance, Lenfant and Brandmüller, are in French and German, nearly three hundred years apart; Lenfant has never been reprinted and is now rare, although I have found his massive work essential to my narrative. Sigismund is almost exclusively a German preserve, and Constance has been neglected by English scholars, although Stump’s authoritative book (in print, but not easy to come by) covers the subject of the actual reforms more than adequately. Hus has been more widely covered, but views tend to differ according to the writer’s religious affiliation (although the Vatican is reported to be considering a rehabilitation).
Then many of the key texts are in Czech, far beyond my scope. Were it not for Fudge’s translations in his essential ‘Crusade Against the Heretics in Bohemia’, any account of the Hussite Wars would have been very much at second hand, as is my Hungarian narrative.
What has therefore been done is to list books I have found helpful, and to indicate chapter by chapter which have been most used. Readers requiring specific references, especially to the rarer sources, are invited to contact me via my publisher and I will do my best to answer their queries.
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