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

List of Abbreviations - Notes on the Contributors - Preface; T.V.Thomas - Introduction; R.J.W.Evans - The System of Estates in the Austrian Hereditary Lands and in the Holy Roman Empire: A Comparison; V.Press - The Political System and the Intellectual Traditions of the Bohemian St ndestaat from the Thirteenth to the Sixteenth Century; W.Eberhard - Ferdinand I and the Estates: Between Confrontation and Co-operation, 1521-64; A.Kohler - Protestantism and Defence of Liberties in the Austrian Lands under Ferdinand I; G.R.Burkert - Crown, Estates, and the Financing of Defence in Inner Austria, 1500-1630; S.Vilfan - The Crown and the Diets of Hungary and Transylvania in the Sixteenth Century; L.Makkai - Princes, Jesuits, and the Origins of Counter-Reformation in the Habsburg Lands; G.Heiss - The Collegium Germanicum Hungaricum in Rome and the Beginning of Counter-Reformation in Hungary; I.Bitskey - Habsburg Absolutism and the Resistance of the Hungarian Estates in the Sixteenth and Sevteenth Centuries; K.Benda - The Religious Question and the Political System of Bohemia before and after the Battle of the White Mountain; J.Panek - Moravia and the Crisis of the Estates' System in the Lands of the Bohemian Crown; J.Valka - Estates and the Problem of Resistance in Theory and Practice in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries; W.Schulze - Armed Conflict in East-Central Europe: Protestant Noble Opposition and Catholic Royalist Factions, 1604-20; G.Schramm - The Bohemian Opposition, Poland-Lithuania, and the Outbreak of the Thirty Years War; I.Auerbach - Ferdinand II: Founder of the Habsburg Monarchy; R.Bireley - The Austrian Nobility, 1600-50: Between Court and Estates; G.Heilingsetzer - The Struggle for Protestant Religious Liberty at the 1646-7 Diet in Hungary; K.Peter - Confessions, Freedoms, and the Unity of Poland-Lithuania; A.Maczak - The Contractual Principle and Right of Resistance in the Ukraine and Moldavia; O.Subtelny - Epilogue: Central and Western Europe; H.G.Koenigsberger - Index