- 1 The Origins of the Thirty Years War? Notes and References ix
- The international situation
- Imperial institutions
- The Empire before
- The Empire, 1580 to
- The Empire, 1604 to
- 2AnInevitableWar?
- The key institutions of the Empire
- The Imperial courts
- The Reichstag
- The free Imperial cities
- Calvinists, the Palatinate, and Christian of Anhalt
- The Calvinists
- The Palatinate
- Christian of Anhalt
- League and Union
- The Catholic League
- The Protestant Union
- The state of Germany in
- Internationalist views
- The key institutions of the Empire
- 3 The Bohemian Context
- The Hussite revolt
- Habsburg Bohemia
- The other Habsburg lands
- 4 Counter-Reformation
- The early years
- Ferdinand of Styria
- Rudolf II vi Contents
- Troubles in Austria
- Discord in Bohemia, revolt in Hungary
- 5 The Habsburg Brothers’ Feud
- The march on Prague,
- Strife in Austria
- The Letter of Majesty,
- The Passau army,
- 6 Matthias’s Reign, Ferdinand’s Succession
- Matthias’s early years, 1612 to
- Ferdinand’s succession in Bohemia
- 7 Insurrection
- Prelude
- The defenestration
- A defenestration plot?
- 8 No Way Back
- From revolt to war
- A king for Bohemia
- A new emperor
- 9 The Search for Allies
- Bohemian disappointments
- Germany – Union and League
- The Protestant Union
- The Catholic League
- Maximilian of Bavaria
- Bethlen Gabor
- Saxony
- Difficulties and delays
- 10 The Revolt Defeated
- The Ulm treaty
- The conquest of Bohemia
- The invasion of the Palatinate
- Aftermath
- 11 From Bohemia to the Thirty Years War
- The Palatine question
- Bethlen Gabor again
- The war in Germany Contents vii
- Into the Thirty Years War
- 12 Epilogue
- References
- Bibliography
- Index
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