ABSTRACT
The Hussite revolution might appear a marginal phenomenon since Austria was not directly touched by the Hussite heresy and the Habsburgs were not immediately confronted by a revolution that first and foremost affected Bohemia. The crisis, however, was a major one in the history of Danubian Europe and reveals much. It was a decisive moment in the history of the Czech people, whom the Habsburgs were shortly to rule, and appears as a general rehearsal for the great religious crisis of the sixteenth century; it was, in a way, the first major dispute in modern Europe.
