Letters
Jan Hus1414–1415 (the letters cited)
The surviving letters of Jan Hus, including those written on the road to Constance and smuggled out of his prisons there in 1414 and 1415. They give his own account of the safe-conduct, the hearings and his refusal to recant.
The editors count eighty-two surviving letters and say that their preservation is owed for the most part to Peter of Mladoňovice, the secretary of John of Chlum. Many of those from Constance were written in prison. In them Jan Hus speaks for himself, and he speaks as a prisoner who believes he has been wronged.
The editors’ linking passages and notes belong to 1904 and are not cited here; only the letters and the declaration of 1 July 1415 are. See the Council of Constance and the Burning of Jan Hus.
Cited in
- 1414 to 1418, firm date