CHAPTER VIII.--THE HUSSITES.

Inquisitorial Methods Attempted in Bohemia 506

Increasing Antagonism.--Fruitless Threats of Force 508

Parties Form Themselves.--Calixtins and Taborites 511

Sigismund Succeeds to the Throne.--Failure of Negotiations 514

Crusade Preached in 1420.--Its Repulse 516

Religious Extravagance.--Pikardi, Chiliasts 517

The Four Articles of the Calixtins 519

Creed of the Taborites 522

Failure of Repeated Crusades.--The Hussites Retaliate 525

Efforts to Reform the Church.--Council of Siena 527

Council of Basle.--Negotiation with the Hussites a Necessity 530

The Four Articles the Basis.--Accepted as the "Compactata" 533

The Taborites Crushed at Lipan 535

Difficulties Caused by Rokyzana's Ambition 536

Insincere Peace.--Sigismund's Reactionary Reign and Death 538

The Calixtins Secure Control under George Podiebrad 541

Rome Disavows the Compactata.--Giacomo della Marca in Hungary 542

The Use of the Cup the Only Distinction.--Capistrano Sent as Inquisitor 545

His Projected Hussite Crusade Impeded by the Capture of Constantinople 551

Efforts to Resist the Turks.--Death of Capistrano at Belgrade 552

Steady Estrangement of Bohemia.--Negotiations and Attacks 555

The Compactata Maintained in Spite of Rome 559

The Bohemian Brethren Arise from the Remains of the Taborites 561

Their Union with the Waldenses 564

Their Growth and Constancy under Persecution 566

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