111 Description of Hussite
warriors
[The rather fanciful and
demonizing portrait of the Hussites gave credence to their alleged
invincibility going all the way back to their stunning victory at Sudomèř in
March 1420 when it seemed the weapons of the 'Iron Lords' were useless against
Hussite flesh. Sce doc.13.]
The Táborites and Orphans were
men exceeding black from the sun and the wind and also from the smoke of their
camp fires. Their very appearance was frightful. Their eyes were like those of
an eagle, their hair wild and stood on end, their beards long and their stature
prodigiously tall. Their bodies were hairy and their skin so hard that it
appeared able to resist iron as though it were a piece of armour. (Aeneas
Sylvius, Historia Bohemica, chapter 51, p. 162, in The Crusades
against Heretics in Bohemia, 1418-1437: Sources and Documents for the Hussite
Crusades [trans. Thomas A. Fudge; Crusade Texts in Translation; London:
Routledge, 2016], 195)
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