The Life Story of Procopius the Great
More and more publications are devoted to Jan Žižek, but much less attention is paid to his successor Prokop Holý. In the anniversary year of the Hussite Revolution, Jan Bauer, a well-known and popular author of historical books, makes good this debt in an insightful and readable way. It's appropriate: after all, the nickname "The Great" wouldn't be given to just anyone!
Prokop's origins and life before he tied his fate to the Hussites are not well known. The same is true of his more famous predecessor, but otherwise we find interesting differences between "Brother Žižka" and "Mr. Prokop", as is already evident from this usual titularization. Procopius the Great was not only a victorious leader of field armies, but also an educated clergyman and an excellent diplomat.
So let us return to the turbulent times of the Rambles, watch the conciliar disputations and negotiations "at the highest level", travel through Central Europe... and experience the rise and fall of a remarkable personality, who was recognized even by his adversaries - not excluding the top of the secular and ecclesiastical hierarchy. Such a reputation will be earned and such a trace left in history only by exceptional figures, and Prokop Holý is undoubtedly one of them.
