Title | The story of Nuremberg |
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Publisher | J. M. Dent & Co. |
Date | 1899 |
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Language | English |
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Original Item Extent | 303 pages; 18 cm |
Original Item Location | DD901.N93 H4 1899 |
Original Item URL | http://library.uh.edu/record=b1684865~S11 |
Digital Collection | Exotic Impressions: Views of Foreign Lands |
Digital Collection URL | http://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/exotic |
Repository | Kenneth Franzheim II Rare Books Room, William R. Jenkins Architecture and Art Library, University of Houston Libraries |
Repository URL | http://info.lib.uh.edu/about/campus-libraries-collections/william-r-jenkins-architecture-art-library |
Use and Reproduction | No Copyright - United States |
Identifier | exotic_201304_001 |
Title | Page 93 |
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File Name | exotic_201304_001_102.jpg |
Transcript | CHAPTER IV tremberg and the Thirty ) ears War Wallenstein—( I r Ha user. 'THE Catholic Reaction was now in full swing. * With the determination of Catholicism to regain her ancient dominion came the Thirty Years War, the last and cruellest of the religious wars, which deprived my of, some say, halt her population, and turned a comparatively rich and prosperous country into a barren desert The violence of Maximilian of Bavaria towards the town of Donauwdrth (1007), "which had been put under Ban of tht for some fault on the part of the populace against a flaring Mass-procession which had no business to be th filled the tree-towns and Protestant communities dark forebodings of approaching disturbance. Evangelical League, " 1 :v 1 was formed by the towns and princes for the purposes of self-defence against any attacks on religious freedom. Nuremberg joined it in in 10. This step was, of course, distasteful to the Emperor, but Nuremberg was left no choice in the matter, for the bishops of Bamberg and Eich- st'att had forced the Nuremberg 1 .1 subjects, living in their dioceses, to revert to the old religion. The Catholic communities formed a counter-1 Only 1 signal was wanted to make the opposing 93 |