Lectures on The Historians of Bohemia

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Lectures on The Historians of Bohemia (1905)
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Lectures on
The Historians of Bohemia

BEING THE ILCHESTER LECTURES
FOR THE YEAR 1904

BY

THE COUNT LÜTZOW

HON. PH.D. OF THE BOHEMIAN UNIVERSITY OF PRAGUE
MEMBER OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF SCIENCES IN BOHEMIA AND OF
THE BOHEMIAN ACADEMY

LONDON: HENRY FROWDE, AMEN CORNER
NEW YORK: 91 & 93 FIFTH AVENUE
TORONTO: 25–27 RICHMOND STREET WEST

1905

Printed by Horace Hart, at
the University Press, Oxford

CONTENTS
page
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		v
Lecture I
Earliest Chroniclers—Cosmas—Chronicle of Dalimil—Beneš of Weitmil—Pulkava—Charles IV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		1
Lecture II
The Hussite Wars—Mladenovič—Lawrence of Březov—Bartošek of Drahonic—Žižka—Aeneas Sylvius—Bartoš . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		27
Lecture III
Sixt of Ottersdorf—The Bloody Diet—Wenceslas Hajek—Jan Blahoslav—Jacob Bílek—Jan Augusta—Wenceslas Březan—William of Rosenberg—Peter of Rosenberg—The ‘Letter of Majesty’—The Defenestration—William Slavata—Paul Skála—James I of England—Executions of the Patriots—Death of Dvořecky—Habernfeld—Paul Stranský . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		54
Lecture IV
The Thirty Years’ War—Balbinus—Pešina—Joseph II—Francis Palacký—Dobrovský—The Museum—Francis Palacký—The Austrian Censors—Tomek—The German Parliament—Palacký’s Views—Death of Palacký—Palacký and Creighton—Helfert and Höfler—Palacký’s Reply—Anton Gindely—Wenceslas Tomek—Josef Kalousek—The Bohemian Constitution—Jaroslav Goll—Rezek—Speech of Palacký—Conclusion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		83
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .		113

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