The Research Of The Reason For The Military Failure Of The Anti-hussite Crusade

Since the mid-14th century onwards, Czech has been a relatively developed country in the economic field, and its economic development needs of the Czech to enhance the status of politics. However, German staying in Bohemia have a better grasp of the land, mining, some of woolen manufacturing and other major means of production. In the same time, the Catholic Church saw the wealthy bohemian as their cash cow. Church's exorbitant taxes and levies held down the lower classes can not breathe. Czech social wealth continuously flow into the bishop, archbishop, cardinal and papal hand. John Hus who is the pioneer of the Reformation of Bohemia speaks out against, so the complicated and jumbled social conflicts and ethnic tensions of Czech also specifically expressed in opposition to the Middle Ages' Catholic Church with a wide range of Reformation Movement. In 1415, John Huss was burned at the stake by the Catholic Church. The Hussite War broke out in 1419 August, about half a year later, in the supporting of Curia Romana, German secular feudal nobility launched several crusades conquered action which aimed at eliminating the Bohemian heretic.The anti-Hussite Crusade movement is not only a part of the whole Crusade, but also the main part of the Hussite Wars. This thesis will introduce anti-Hussite Crusade in detail, which including the first anti- Hussite Crusade of 1420, the second anti-Hussite Crusade of 1421, the third anti-Hussite Crusade between 1421 and 1422, the fourth anti-Hussite Crusade of 1427 and the fifth anti-Hussite Crusade of 1431.The whole article also account for the anti-Hussite crusade, as well as pre-Hussite army mobilized and organized, and the battlefield military operations, weapons and equipment, strategy and tactics, etc. Furthermore, this thesis tends to separate certain military strategies and tactics of the army of the Crusaders and the Hussites to do highlights, such as the Wagenburg which created by John Zizka, so that we could try to show the reasons for the failure of five anti-Hussite Crusades from the balance of power of the opposing sides.In addition, the battle between the Hussites and the Crusaders in more than 10 years is also an essential component of great events of the whole Europe, while in this time, the Medieval European army- the heavy cavalry whose core is the knight have been hit once and again, such as the battle of Grunwald which took place between the Teutonic Knights and Poland-Lithuania, the battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years War. Besides that, there are many battles between the Hussite armies and the anti-Hussite Crusaders, all of these developments indicate a kind of decline of the medieval chivalry reflected in the military field. What's more, the emergence of firearms is also contributed to an important reason for the decline of the former. All of above are the contents which this article trying to analyze.