Bohemian heretic Jan Hus (who was influenced by the notorious Oxford theologian John Wycliffe [see chapter 11]) railed against papal corruption; either Hus or someone in his circle produced a Latin polemic known as the Anatomy of the Antichrist, which explained at painstaking length why the pope was in fact the devil: an “abomination of desolation,” the “angel of the bottomless pit,” a “he-goat,” and a “wicked and profane prince.”
