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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
THE WARS OF RELIGION IN FRANCE
By A. J. BUTLER, M.A., formerly Fellow of Trinity College; Professor
of Italian Language and Literature in University College, London
The Fourth War
Henry of Anjou King of Poland. Peace of La Rochelle, 1573
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He capitulates to the League. Treaty of Nemours, 1585
The Eighth War (the War of the three Henrys). Bull of Sixtus V against
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Murder of Guise, 1588. Death of Catharine de' Medici, 1589
Alliance of Henry III and Navarre against the League
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By A. A. TILLEY, M.A., Fellow of King's College
Dumoulin. The Massacre of St Bartholomew and humanism. Scaliger
Casaubon. P. Pithou
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Jesuit learning. Desportes. Du Bartas
Other Huguenot writers. Historical research. Hotman. Bodin
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CHAPTER III
THE CATHOLIC REACTION, AND THE VALOIS AND BÁTHORY
ELECTIONS, IN POLAND
By R. NISBET BAIN, Assistant Librarian of the British Museum
The Reformers assume the offensive. Synods of Pinczow and Kozminek
Protestantism at its height in Poland, 1558-9
Recovery of Catholicism. Union of Lublin. Cardinal Hosius.
Beginning of the Catholic Reaction
Commendone's mission, 1563-5.
Tartars in East Poland. Election Diet of Warsaw. The candidates and
their advocates
Intervention of Jan Zamoyski
Elections of Maximilian II
and of Stephen Báthory
State entry and coronation of Stephen, 1576
King Stephen and the Nuncio Laureo
Stephen's foreign policy. Surrender of Danzig
His Muscovite campaigns
His domestic policy
His death, 1586.
CHAPTER IV
THE HEIGHT OF THE OTTOMAN POWER
By MORITZ BROSCH, Ph.D.
Andrea Doria takes Coron. Peace negotiations at Vienna and Constanti-
nople.
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Barbarossa on the Mediterranean coasts. War between Turkey and Persia
Death of the Grand Vezir Ibrahim. Barbarossa aids Francis I against
Charles V
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War between Venice and the Turks
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League against the Turks. Embassies of Charles and Francis to Venice.
Venetian negotiations at Constantinople. Peace between Venice and the
Turks, 1540.
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Peace between the Empire and Turkey, 1555. Wars in Persia and Hun-
gary. Murder of Cardinal Martinuzzi
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Solyman and the teachers
His treatment of his Christian subjects. Accession of Selim II
His title of "the Magnificent
Fresh outbreak of the Hungarian War. Peace between the Empire and Turkey, 1562
Murder of Prince Bayazid and his sons
Turkish attack upon Malta
Solyman's last campaign and death, 1566
Solyman and the army.
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He makes peace with the Emperor, 1568. Mohammad Sokolli and his policy.
Causes of the war with Venice. Cyprus
Triple alliance (Spain, the Pope and Venice) against the Turks
Battle of Lepanto, 1571
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Break-up of the triple alliance. Administration of Mohammad Sokolli
Peace between Venice and the Porte, 1573
By A. W. WARD, Litt.D., LL.D., F.B.A., Master of Peterhouse
Forces in its favour. The middle party in the Empire. Political securi-
ties, 1555
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Kurfürstentage; Kreistage; Reichsdeputationstage
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New Exekutionsordnung. Reichskammergericht. Reichshofrath
Accession of Ferdinand I, 1558. His churchmanship
His Hungarian rule. The Turkish peril
Bohemia under Ferdinand.
The Catholic Reaction in Bohemia
Religious condition of Austria. Canisius.
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The "Ortenburg Conspiracy." The Catholic Reaction in Bavaria. The
Jesuits.
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Diet of Augsburg, 1559. Meeting of Protestant Estates at Naumburg
Papal briefs conceding use of the Cup to laity
Maximilian elected Roman King, 1562
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Double election to the Polish throne; Stephen Báthory prevails. The
western border, and the transit and levy of troops
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Diet of Augsburg, 1566
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Failure of the attempt against Calvinism. Lutheran divisions.
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John Casimir's expedition into France. The German Protestants and the
insurrection in the Netherlands. Advances of Protestantism in Aus-
tria. Chytraeus.
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Philip II rejects Austrian intervention in the Netherlands. His marriage
Proposed offensive Protestant combination breaks down
Diet of Speier, 1570; Maximilian's unsatisfactory foreign policy Progress of the Counter-Reformation. Fulda. The Eichsfeld Dissensions between the Saxon and Palatine Electors. The Torgau Formula
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Rudolf elected Roman King. Diet of Ratisbon, 1576
By the Rev. GEORGE EDMUNDSON, M.A., formerly Fellow and
Tutor of Brasenose College, Oxford
Abdication of sovereignty of the Netherlands by Charles V, 1555
Character and policy of Philip II
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Treaty of Cateau-Cambrésis, 1559
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Financial and religious causes of discontent in the Netherlands
The Inquisition. Increase of the episcopate
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