The Quest for Compromise
Subtitle: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 22, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780521027120
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; c 1500 to c 1600; Sociology - General; History - General History; History; History: World; Austria; Europe - Germany; Peace; History / Europe / General; Maximilian--II,--Holy Roman Emperor,--1527-1576; Europe - General
First sentence: It was the often caustic Voltaire who penned the famous line, "This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire is neither holy, nor an Empire."