The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618

ISBN-13: 9781137543844 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 293 str.

Geoff Mortimer

Opis

As the 400th anniversary of the outbreak of the Thirty Years War approaches, Geoff Mortimer provides a timely re-assessment of its origins. Drawing on recent research, he challenges the conventional view that the war was almost inevitable, a result either of the inexorable growth of inter-confessional tensions in Germany over the preceding forty years, or of the wider international conflicts between Spain, France and the Dutch. Hence he argues that the Bohemian revolt of 1618 was not, as has often been suggested, merely the spark to the powder keg, but the initial substantive cause of the war.

Most histories deal only briefly with the circumstances occasioning the revolt, but The Origins of the Thirty Years War and the Revolt in Bohemia, 1618 offers the fullest modern account. The famous defenestration of Prague is also carefully re-examined, leading to a reappraisal of the long-accepted view that it was the premeditated action of a small core group of anti-Habsburg activists.

Spis treści

1. The Origins of the Thirty Years War?
2. An Inevitable War?
3. The Bohemian Context
4. Counter-Reformation
5. The Habsburg Brothers ' ' Feud
6. Matthias ' 's Reign, Ferdinand ' 's Succession
7. Insurrection
8. No Way Back
9. The Search for Allies
10. The Revolt Defeated
11. From Bohemia to the Thirty Years War
12. Epilogue

O autorze

Geoff Mortimer was formerly Lecturer in German at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, UK, where he also studied history. His publications include Eyewitness Accounts of the Thirty Years War 1618-48 (2002), Early Modern Military History, 1450-1815 (2004), and Wallenstein: The Enigma of the Thirty Years War (2010), together with a number of academic articles on this period.