The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618

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The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618 Geoff Mortimer St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK ...

© Geoff Mortimer 2015 All rights reserved. No reproduction, copy or transmission of this publication may be made without written ...

Contents List of Images viii Acknowledgements ix Conventions ix ...

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1 The Origins of the Thirty Years War? Notes and References ix The international situation Imperial institutions The Empire bef ...

Images 1 The defenestration of Prague, 23 May 1618 (19th-century painting) Photo: akg.images 136 2 Bohemian chancellor Zden ̆ek ...

Acknowledgements The author would particularly like to thank Dr Alena Pazderová of the Czech National Archive, and Sona Cernocka ...

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1 The Origins of the Thirty Years War? The Thirty Years War was not only long, but also extremely complicated. Hence almost all ...

2 The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618 the lands of the Bohemian crown had long been decidedly am ...

The Origins of the Thirty Years War? 3 even longer established and more intense had been the rivalry between the French monarchy ...

4 The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618 crown, to his younger brother Ferdinand. Thus his son Phil ...

The Origins of the Thirty Years War? 5 in 1610, so that a Huguenot rebellion broke out in 1620 and trou- bles continued up to Ri ...

6 The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618 and expensive. The main Swiss passes were barred to the Sp ...

The Origins of the Thirty Years War? 7 Sweden and Poland thus had both a territorial and a dynastic basis, as Sigismund did not ...