Author : C. V. Wedgwood
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 23,89 MB
Release : 2016-09-13
Category : History
ISBN : 1681371235
Europe in 1618 was riven between Protestants and Catholics, Bourbon and Hapsburg--as well as empires, kingdoms, and countless principalities. After angry Protestants tossed three representatives of the Holy Roman Empire out the window of the royal castle in Prague, world war spread from Bohemia with relentless abandon, drawing powers from Spain to Sweden into a nightmarish world of famine, disease, and seemingly unstoppable destruction.
Author : Sir Adolphus William Ward
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 33,65 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
ISBN :
Author : Thomas A. Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 052188909X
This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation of the Church before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. The resulting settlement maintained the public peace through politically structured religious communities (confessions), thereby avoiding further religious strife and fixing the confessions into the Empire's constitution. The Germans' emergence into the modern era as a people having two national religions was the reformation's principal legacy to modern Germany.
Author : Steve Murdoch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 43,2 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004120860
This volume deals with the entanglement of Scotland in the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), discussing the diplomatic and military aspects of the conflict that were interwoven with the fate of the Scottish princess, Elizabeth of Bohemia, the famous Winter Queen.
Author : Friedrich Schiller
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 527 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1613103662
Author : Samuel Rawson Gardiner
Publisher :
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,15 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
ISBN :
Author : Richard Bonney
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 33,87 MB
Release : 2014-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1472810023
More than three and a half centuries have passed since the Peace of Westphalia ended the Thirty Years' War (1618-48); but this most devastating of wars in the early modern period continues to capture the imagination of readers: this book reveals why. It was one of the first wars where contemporaries stressed the importance of atrocities, the horrors of the fighting and also the sufferings of the civilian population. The Thirty Years' War remains a conflict of key importance in the history of the development of warfare and the 'military revolution'.
Author : Derek Croxton
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 50,29 MB
Release : 2002
Category : History
ISBN :
The peace of Westphalia constituted a watershed in early modern history. It guided a number of political, territorial, and legal decisions that determined the internal politics of the Holy Roman Empire and the international landscape. This work provides an insight into the Peace of Westphalia.
Author : Robert Bireley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 2003-06-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521820172
This book brings to light the extent to which the Thirty Years War was a religious war.
Author : Robert Bireley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 24,12 MB
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1316165205
Emperor Ferdinand II (1619–37) stands out as a crucial figure in the Counter-Reformation in central Europe, a leading player in the Thirty Years War, the most important ruler in the consolidation of the Habsburg monarchy, and the emperor who reinvigorated the office after its decline under his two predecessors. This is the first biography since a long-outdated one written in German in 1978, and the first ever in English. It looks at his reign as territorial ruler of Inner Austria from 1598 until his election as emperor and especially at the influence of his mother, the formidable Archduchess Maria, in order to understand his later policies as emperor. This book focuses on the consistency of his policies and the profound influence of religion throughout his career, and follows the contest at court between those who favored consolidation of the Habsburg lands and those who aimed for expansion in the empire.
