Crown, church and estates : central European politics in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries : Conference : Revised papers

Preface not only to English-speaking historians of Central Europe. The visiting participants at the conference impressed on the organisers how much they welcomed the conference as an unusual, indeed a unique, opportunity to meet together in one place and discuss their work, and many of the papers incorporate significant new findings. 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 This book deals with a turning-point in European history: the dramatic struggle between the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation, and between princely rulers and landed nobles in sixteenth and seventeenth-century central and eastern Europe. It brings together the results of the latest research by leading scholars from North America and Europe and it throws new light on the victory of the Church and the rulers over Protestantism and the nobility which had such profound long-term consequences.