Crown, Church and Estates: Central European Politics in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries

Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
The System of Estates in the Austrian Hereditary Lands and in the Holy Roman Empire: A Comparison....Pages 1-22
The Political System and the Intellectual Traditions of the Bohemian Ständestaat from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century....Pages 23-47
Ferdinand I and the Estates: Between Confrontation and Co-operation, 1521–64....Pages 48-57
Protestantism and Defence of Liberties in the Austrian Lands under Ferdinand I....Pages 58-69
Crown, Estates and the Financing of Defence in Inner Austria, 1500–1630....Pages 70-79
The Crown and the Diets of Hungary and Transylvania in the Sixteenth Century....Pages 80-91
Princes, Jesuits and the Origins of Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg Lands....Pages 92-109
The Collegium Germanicum Hungaricum in Rome and the Beginning of Counter-Reformation in Hungary....Pages 110-122
Habsburg Absolutism and the Resistance of the Hungarian Estates in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries....Pages 123-128
The Religious Question and the Political System of Bohemia before and after the Battle of the White Mountain....Pages 129-148
Moravia and the Crisis of the Estates’ System in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown....Pages 149-157
Estates and the Problem of Resistance in Theory and Practice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries....Pages 158-175
Armed Conflict in East-Central Europe: Protestant Noble Opposition and Catholic Royalist Factions, 1604–20....Pages 176-195
The Bohemian Opposition, Poland-Lithuania and the Outbreak of the Thirty Years War....Pages 196-225
Ferdinand II: Founder of the Habsburg Monarchy....Pages 226-244
The Austrian Nobility, 1600 – 1650: Between Court and Estates....Pages 245-260
The Struggle for Protestant Religious Liberty at the 1646–47 Diet in Hungary....Pages 261-268
Confessions, Freedoms, and the Unity of Poland-Lithuania....Pages 269-286
The Contractual Principle and Right of Resistance in the Ukraine and Moldavia....Pages 287-299
Epilogue: Central and Western Europe....Pages 300-310
Back Matter....Pages 311-321