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Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620: With a short summary of later events — John Shaqi

Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620: With a short summary of later eventsMaurice, C. Edmund (Charles Edmund)

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Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620: With a short summary of later events

Name: Bohemia, from the earliest times to the fall of national independence in 1620: With a short summary of later events
Author: Maurice, C. Edmund (Charles Edmund)

Maurice, C. Edmund (Charles Edmund)

Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- History -- 1526-1618; Bohemia (Czech Republic) -- History -- To 1526

Completeness of the overthrow of Bohemian independence
    in 1620--Execution of leaders of insurrection--Persecution
    of Protestant preachers--Triumph of the Jesuits--Their
    absolute power--Destruction of memorials of Protestant
    leaders--Loc̆ika’s protest and death--Resistance and overthrow
    of Kuttenberg--Z̆erotin and Ferdinand--Resistance
    of Z̆erotin and Sabovsky--Penal laws against Protestants--Their
    expulsion in 1627--Overthrow of constitutional and
    municipal liberty and national independence--Crushing
    out of the language--Career of Comenius--His life before
    leaving Bohemia--His allegory--He settles at Lissa--“Janua
    aurea”--The “Didactica”--Invitation to Sweden--Comenius
    and Hartlib--Success and failure in England--Milton’s
    letter to Hartlib--Comenius in Sweden--At
    Elbing--Comenius and De Geer--Disappointment at peace
    of Westphalia--Election as Bishop of Brotherhood--Effect
    of his addresses--His later labours--Results of his work--General
    stagnation in Bohemia--Accession of Maria
    Theresa and its results--Suppression of the Jesuits--Joseph’s
    Edict of Toleration--Shortcomings of his religious
    policy--Of his educational policy--His opposition to Constitutional
    liberty--His abolition of serfdom--Leopold II.--Revival
    of Bohemian Literature--Frantis̆ek Pelc̆el--Caspar
    von Sternberg--Josef Dobrovsky--Leopold II. and
    Dobrovsky--The National Museum--The Königinhof MS.--S̆afarik
    and Palacký--The Grünberg MS.--The controversy
    about these MSS.--Palacký’s History--The discovery
    of ancient peasant art--Later controversies.




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.


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    SMALL RING OF PRAGUE                                _Frontispiece_

    LIBUS̆A’S BATH JUST BELOW THE VYS̆EHRAD                          9

    CYRIL AND METHODIUS, FROM THE WINDOW OF A CHURCH IN
    CAROLINEN-THAL                                                  13

    TOMB OF ST. LUDMILA                                             23

    CHURCH BUILT BY ST. ADALBERT AT PRACHATICE                      31

    RADNICE BRNE: OLD DOOR OF TOWN COUNCIL HOUSE OF BRÜNN           73

    JÍHLAVA (IGLAU), THE GREAT MINING CENTRE IN MORAVIA             77

    CATHEDRAL OF OLMÜTZ ON SITE OF CASTLE WHERE WENCESLAUS III.
    WAS MURDERED                                                   117

    LIKENESS TAKEN FROM CHAPEL IN CARLSTEIN                        131

    CARLSTEIN (KARLUV TYN)                                         135

    MAPS SHOWING GROWTH OF PRAGUE UNDER CHARLES IV.           138, 139

    STATUE OF CHARLES IV. NEAR HIS BRIDGE IN PRAGUE                152

    KRUMOV, ONE OF THE CHIEF SEATS OF THE ROSENBERGS               169

    VILLAGE OF HUSINEC                                             175

    HUSINEC, SHOWING COTTAGE WHERE HUS WAS BORN                    176

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