Chapters (32)
- Epigraph
- Prologue
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
- Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Chapter Nine
- Chapter Ten
- Chapter Eleven
- Chapter Twelve
- Chapter Thirteen
- Chapter Fourteen
- Chapter Fifteen
- Chapter Sixteen
- Chapter Seventeen
- Chapter Eighteen
- Chapter Nineteen
- Chapter Twenty
- Chapter Twenty-One
- Chapter Twenty-Two
- Chapter Twenty-Three
- Chapter Twenty-Four
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- PART ONE
- By Andrzej Sapkowski
“An inexplicable kind of wisdom. Actually, it’s the second time that the Holy Roman Emperor manifests a like wisdom. In 1420, by issuing the Wrocław sentence he infuriated Witold, owing to which we now have Korybut and his Polish regiment in Bohemia. Now, for a change, Sigismund is infuriating Jagiełło, offering Witold the crown and wresting Lithuania from Poland. The infuriated Jagiełło is on the point of abandoning all plans for a crusade to Bohemia and is liable to forge an alliance with the Hussites! Is that what you call political wisdom, Honourable Bishop? The forging of an alliance of Poland with Bohemia? Do you—you and your King Sigismund—want to have an army against you, in which the victors of the Battle of Grunwald will fight alongside the victors of the Battles of Ústí and Tachov? Last spring, Prokop stood outside Wrocław’s walls. Owing to the policies of King Sigismund, an allied Czech–Polish army might arrive here next spring. And before you know it, communion sub utraque specie will be given in your cathedral. With the liturgy in Polish.”