Alex’s Reviews > Warrior of God: Jan Zizka and the Hussite Revolution > Status Update

Although Kutna Hora surrendered to Zizka, he still massacred its people. He even burned down a church in which some of them took refuge. Then he replaced the German miners with Czechs. Verney says this was because the militia of Kutna Hora engaged the Hussites earlier, and because of the massacre of the Hussites that happened there years earlier.

Ironically, Zizkas behavior changed for the worse after he laid down his rules of conduct. He engaged in bloody infighting, killed a priest singlehandedly, and engaged in a scorched earth policy. Arguably, he had made himself a deserter with his document, which put his name and that of his second-in-command over those of four barons of higher social rank.

Zizka executed a captured priest in Prague after the battle of Strachuv Dur, by bashing his head with a club. This falls in line with his burning Catholic priests to death, although in this case, the priest belonged to a Hussite faction.

That call included himself.

I am impressed by Zizkas call to do penance at Nemecky Brod for the sins committed there.

At Nemecky Brod, Zizkas army breached the city while he was busy negotiating, and massacred the citizens.

Zelivsky turned Prague, de facto a republic under the Hussites, under a tyranny, with the rabble calling for Hvezda to rule them. He quickly instituted a reign of terror, and, ironically, executed at least one "traitor" after promising him safe conduct.