The following article deals with the issue of spreading the teachings of Jan Hus and the associated revolutionary ideas and experience toward the South Slavic environment. The Hussites formed a medieval movement arising from a reformist group within the Catholic Church, inspired by the life and work of Jan Hus, a Czech Roman Catholic priest and university teacher, who based his teachings on the ideas of John Wycliffe. The movement sought the restoration of a unified Church (reaction to schism) and criticized indulgences as well as the sinful life of priests. After the burning of Jan Hus in 1415, the situation in the Czech lands radicalized and was heading toward long wars, which took place between 1419 and 1434.

The development of the university environment led not only to the establishment of new ideas in the Czech environment, but could also substantially influenced students coming from abroad and lead to the import of heretical ideas to other countries, too. This is particularly interesting is the case of Croats, with whom cultural ties were cemented in the course of the fourteenth century. In 1347, at the beginning of his rule, King Charles IV invited Benedictine monks from Croatia, called Glagolites, to revive the Slavonic liturgy, referring to the Saints Cyril and Methodius tradition, and in order to set up a centre of Slavic religious education. The question was: to what extent did the cultural convergence continue at the level of university education and if it had any effect on the proliferation of Hus's reformist ideas, especially when the Glagolites themselves allegedly translated one or two of Hus's sermons into Croatian.

In the Czech environment, the establishment of the University of Prague in 1348 resulted in the slow constitution of an educated class, which gradually gained more and more rights. In 1392, university doctors, masters, students and their servants were even excluded from the jurisdiction of royal courts and were only subjected to the university court. This educated class gradually garnered more confidence and increasingly wanted to participate in the transformation of the society. This was most obvious at the beginning of the fifteenth century, when university life revolved around the spreading of John Wycliffe's ideas by Jan Hus, who became the most prominent figure of the early fifteenth century.