The Jesuits and the Thirty Years War
Subtitle: Kings, Courts, and Confessors
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: June 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9780521820172
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; History of religion; Holy war; Religion; History; Religion - Church Life; History: World; Western Continental Europe; Religion - Missions; Europe - General; Institutions & Organizations; History / Europe / General; 17th century; Europe; Jesuits; Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
First sentence: AT about nine o'clock on the morning of May 23, 1618, members of a Protestant assembly meeting in Prague burst through the door of the Hradschin Castle and forced their way up the narrow staircase into the council room.