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Rich ambivalence in Perett's treatment of the rise of Jan Hus. On p. 36 Hus decries his clerical antagonists as "enemies of the Scriptures."

Liking the scholarly set-up in the early chapters, accessible to non-specialists. A clear revisionist intent, discerning and soberly delineated: "Judging by other standards, the fifteenth century was brimming with religious vitality, even if, like all other transformational periods, its narrative history is rather messy around the edges" (13).