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... of the Pickarts in 1421, Houska left Tabor, but he was captured by the moderate Taborites and burned. Houska’s doctrine is known by certain excerpts from his treatises, quoted in the works of his opponents. In his sermons, which bear a chiliastic character, Houska predicted the appearance of a new social structure with no private property and no clerical or ...

... the radical views of M. Houska, whose teaching he continued to preach even after the massacre of the Picarts by the moderate Taborites. In 1452, Koranda was seized by the feudal lords and incarcerated in a dungeon.

... the radical views of M. Houska, whose teaching he continued to preach even after the massacre of the Picarts by the moderate Taborites. In 1452, Koranda was seized by the feudal lords and incarcerated in a dungeon.

... Taborite preachers Martin Houska, Jan čapek, Václav Koranda, Petr Kaniŝ, and Jan Bydlína. Cloaking their social demands in a fantastic religious guise, they consistently developed the ideas of revolutionary chiliasm. They asserted that the time had already arrived for the thousand-year reign of god on earth, a reign of social justice. To help establish god ...

... of the Pickarts (Martin Houska, for example).In spite of disagreements, the Taborites remained the major military force in rebellious Bohemia. They created a field army under the command of Jan Žižka and developed advanced military tactics that provided for maneuverability and the use of battle wagons and artillery. The Taborite army, led by Mikuláš z ...