[RegulatorCountry]

No, he was just tried posthumously, exhumed, his books and his long-buried remains burned, and the ashes strewn in the River Swift.

What was that all about anyway? I guess it could have been worse, his actual corpse could have been put on trial like Pope Formosus was in the infamous “Cadaver Synod.”

http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/87873/Cadaver-Synod

[MarkBsnr]

No, he was just tried posthumously, exhumed, his books and his long-buried remains burned, and the ashes strewn in the River Swift. What was that all about anyway?

Hus taunted the Church authorities to the point where they reacted in similar fashion to the monarchs of the day. Look what happened when the renegade king Henry Tudor had Tyndale arrested and killed, even though Tudor was an enemy of the Church.