A History of the Hussite Revolution - Hardcoverby Howard Kaminsky (Author) The religious reformation in fifteenth century Bohemia was also a social, political, and cultural revolution the first of the great upheavals that transformed the medieval into the modern world. Beginning with a revival of evangelical pietism among the people of Prague, then coming under the leadership of the Czech intelligentsia of Prague's university, the reform movement reached its highest point under Master John Hus,