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

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PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

I. FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD OF BOHEMIAN HISTORY TO THE HUNGARIAN INVASION. (-885.)

II. BOHEMIAN SAINTS AND WARRIORS IN THE TENTH CENTURY. (885-997.)

III. RELATIONS OF BOHEMIA TO POLAND AND TO THE EMPIRE IN THE

IV. THE GROWTH OF BOHEMIAN LIFE FROM ACCESSION OF PR?EMYSL

V. TIME OF ANARCHY IN BOHEMIA FROM DEATH OF OTTAKAR II. TO ACCESSION OF CHARLES IV. (1278-1346.)

VI. REIGN OF CHARLES IV. (1346-1378.)

VII. THE REFORM MOVEMENT FROM THE DIET OF 1359 TO THE

VIII. FROM THE RETIREMENT OF THE GERMANS FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF PRAGUE TO THE DEATH OF HUS. (1409-1415.)

IX. FROM THE DEATH OF HUS TO THE FIRST CORONATION OF SIGISMUND. (July 6, 1415-July 28, 1420.)

X. FROM THE FIRST CORONATION OF SIGISMUND TO THE OPENING OF COUNCIL OF BASEL. (1420-1431.)

XI. FROM THE OPENING OF THE COUNCIL OF BASEL TO THE FALL OF TABOR. (1437-1452.)

XII. FROM THE FALL OF TABOR TO THE DEATH OF GEORGE OF POD?BRAD. (1452-1470.)

XIII. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE BOHEMIAN BROTHERHOOD TO THE

XIV. REIGN OF FERDINAND I. (1526-1564.)

XV. FROM THE DEATH OF FERDINAND I. TO THE BEGINNING OF THE REACTION UNDER RUDOLF II. (1564-1600.)

XVI. FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE REACTION TO THE DEATH OF RUDOLF II. (1600-1612.)

XVII. FROM THE DEATH OF RUDOLF II. TO THE BATTLE OF THE WHITE HILL. (1612-1620.)

XVIII. FROM THE BATTLE OF THE WHITE HILL TO THE PRESENT TIME.

FOOTNOTES

INDEX.

Transcriber’s Note: The Czech language uses the caron character above letters (e.g. č). This book, however, was printed with the breve character (c̆) which has been retained.

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The Story of the Nations.

BOHEMIA.

Seal (decorative): VITA SINE LITERIS MORS EST

THE STORY OF THE NATIONS.

1. ROME. By Arthur Gilman, M.A.

2. THE JEWS. By Prof. J. K. Hosmer.

3. GERMANY. By Rev. S. Baring-Gould, M.A.

4. CARTHAGE. By Prof. Alfred J. Church.

5. ALEXANDER’S EMPIRE. By Prof. J. P. Mahaffy.

6. THE MOORS IN SPAIN. By Stanley Lane-Poole.

7. ANCIENT EGYPT. By Prof. George Rawlinson.

8. HUNGARY. By Prof. Arminius VambÉry.

9. THE SARACENS. By Arthur Gilman, M.A.

10. IRELAND. By the Hon. Emily Lawless.

11. CHALDEA. By ZÉnaÏde A. Ragozin.

12. THE GOTHS. By Henry Bradley.

13. ASSYRIA. By ZÉnaÏde A. Ragozin.

14. TURKEY. By Stanley Lane-Poole.

15. HOLLAND. By Prof. J. E. Thorold Rogers.

16. MEDIÆVAL FRANCE. By Gustave Masson.

17. PERSIA. By S. G. W. Benjamin.

18. PHŒNICIA. By Prof. Geo. Rawlinson.

19. MEDIA. By ZÉnaÏde A. Ragozin.

20. THE HANSA TOWNS. By Helen Zimmern.

21. EARLY BRITAIN. By Prof. Alfred J. Church.

22. THE BARBARY CORSAIRS. By Stanley Lane-Poole.

23. RUSSIA. By W. R. Morfill, M.A.

24. THE JEWS UNDER THE ROMANS. By W. D. Morrison.

25. SCOTLAND. By John Mackintosh, LL.D.

26. SWITZERLAND. By Mrs. Lina Hug and R. Stead.

27. MEXICO. By Susan Hale.

28. PORTUGAL. By H. Morse Stephens.

29. THE NORMANS. By Sarah Orne Jewett.

30. THE BYZANTINE EMPIRE. By C. W. C. Oman.

31. SICILY: Phoenician, Greek and Roman. By the late Prof. E. A. Freeman.

32. THE TUSCAN REPUBLICS. By Bella Duffy.

33. POLAND. By W. R. Morfill, M.A.

34. PARTHIA. By Prof. George Rawlinson.

35. AUSTRALIAN COMMONWEALTH. By Greville Tregarthen.

36. SPAIN. By H. E. Watts.

37. JAPAN. By David Murray, Ph.D.

38. SOUTH AFRICA. By George M. Theal.

39. VENICE. By Alethea Wiel.

40. THE CRUSADES. By T. A. Archer and C. L. Kingsford.

41. VEDIC INDIA. By Z. A. Ragozin.

42. WEST INDIES and the SPANISH MAIN. By James Rodway.

43. BOHEMIA. By C. Edmund Maurice, M.A.

44. THE BALKANS. By W. Miller.

45. CANADA. By Sir J. G. Bourinot, LL.D.

46. BRITISH INDIA. By R. W. Frazer, LL.B.

47. MODERN FRANCE. By AndrÉ-Le Bon.

48. THE FRANKS. By Lewis Sergeant.

49. AUSTRIA. By Sidney Whitman.

50. MODERN ENGLAND. Before the Reform Bill. By Justin McCarthy.

51. CHINA. By Prof. R. K. Douglas.

52. MODERN ENGLAND. From the Reform Bill to the Present Time. By Justin McCarthy.

53. MODERN SPAIN. By Martin A. S. Hume.

54. MODERN ITALY. By Pietro Orsi.

55. NORWAY. By H. H. Boyesen.

56. WALES. By O. M. Edwards.

London: T. FISHER UNWIN, Paternoster Square, E.C.



BOHEMIA

FROM THE EARLIEST TIMES TO THE FALL OF NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE IN 1620; WITH A SHORT SUMMARY OF LATER EVENTS

BY

C. EDMUND MAURICE

AUTHOR OF THE “REVOLUTIONS OF 1848-9 IN ITALY, AUSTRIA-HUNGARY, AND GERMANY,” “RICHARD DE LACY: A TALE OF THE LATER LOLLARDS,” &C.

Corresponding Member of the Royal Bohemian Society of Sciences

SECOND IMPRESSION

London
T. FISHER UNWIN
PATERNOSTER SQUARE

Copyright by T. Fisher Unwin, 1896
(For Great Britain).


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