With the recent release of Kingdom Come: Deliverance II, many people have been diving back into @WarhorseStudios rendition of 15th century Bohemia. I know I certainly have! But if you've found yourself wandering the game's map, reading through codex entries and thinking to yourself "man, I really wish I could listen to some Canadian dude talk about this stuff a little too fast while showing me pretty pictures with somewhat choppy editing," then you're in luck because I'm here for you. Plus I know a thing or two about medieval history, so that's a nice bonus, right? So in order to get a better appreciation of the story and setting of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, join me as I go over the historical background of the game and give context to the world in which Henry of Skalitz finds himself.
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Works cited and recommendations for further reading:
-Fudge, Thomas A. Jan Hus: Religious Reform and Social Revolution in Bohemia (I.B. Tauris , 2010).
-Lyublyanovics, Kyra. “Spies of the Enemy, Pagan Herders, and Vassals Most Welcome: Cuman-Hungarian Relations in the Thirteenth Century.” In Expulsion and Diaspora Formation: Religious and Ethnic Identities in Flux from Antiquity to the Seventeenth Century, edited by John Victor Tolan (Brepols, 2015).
-Pálóczi-Horváth, András. Pechenegs, Cumans, Iasians: Steppe Peoples in Medieval Hungary. Translated by Timothy Wilkinson (Corvina, 1989).
-Rychterova, Pavlina. “A Crooked Mirror for Princes: Vernacular Reflections on Wenceslas IV ‘the Idle.’” In Evil Lords: Theories and Representations of Tyranny from Antiquity to the Renaissance, edited by Nikos Panou and Hester Schadee (Oxford University Press, 2018).
-Scales, Leonard E. “At the Margins of Community: Germans in Pre-Hussite Bohemia.” In The Expansion of Central Europe in the Middle Ages, edited by Nora Berend (Routledge, 2016).
-Šmahel, František, and Ota Pavlíček, eds. A Companion to Jan Hus (Brill, 2014).
-Teich, Mikuláš., ed. Bohemia in History (Cambridge University Press, 1998).
-Vercamer, Grischa, and Dušan Zupka, eds. Rulership in Medieval East Central Europe: Power, Rituals and Legitimacy in Bohemia, Hungary and Poland (Brill, 2022).
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Outro music: Laid Back Guitars by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY-SA 4.0
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