XVIII.
FROM THE BATTLE OF THE WHITE HILL TO THE PRESENT TIME 483-509
Completeness of the overthrow of Bohemian independence in 1620--Execution of leaders of insurrection--Persecution of Protestant preachers--Triumph of the Jesuits--Their absolute power--Destruction of memorials of Protestant leaders--Loc̆ika’s protest and death--Resistance and overthrow of Kuttenberg--Z̆erotin and Ferdinand--Resistance of Z̆erotin and Sabovsky--Penal laws against Protestants--Their expulsion in 1627--Overthrow of constitutional and municipal liberty and national independence--Crushing out of the language--Career of Comenius--His life before leaving Bohemia--His allegory--He settles at Lissa--“Janua aurea”--The “Didactica”--Invitation to Sweden--Comenius and Hartlib--Success and failure in England--Milton’s letter to Hartlib--Comenius in Sweden--At Elbing--Comenius and De Geer--Disappointment at peace of Westphalia--Election as Bishop of Brotherhood--Effect of his addresses--His later labours--Results of his work--General stagnation in Bohemia--Accession of Maria Theresa and its results--Suppression of the Jesuits--Joseph’s Edict of Toleration--Shortcomings of his religious policy--Of his educational policy--His opposition to Constitutional liberty--His abolition of serfdom--Leopold II.--Revival of Bohemian Literature--Frantis̆ek Pelc̆el--Caspar von Sternberg--Josef Dobrovsky--Leopold II. and Dobrovsky--The National Museum--The Königinhof MS.--S̆afarik and Palacký--The Grünberg MS.--The controversy about these MSS.--Palacký’s History--The discovery of ancient peasant art--Later controversies.
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
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SMALL RING OF PRAGUE _Frontispiece_
LIBUS̆A’S BATH JUST BELOW THE VYS̆EHRAD 9
CYRIL AND METHODIUS, FROM THE WINDOW OF A CHURCH IN CAROLINEN-THAL 13
TOMB OF ST. LUDMILA 23
CHURCH BUILT BY ST. ADALBERT AT PRACHATICE 31
RADNICE BRNE: OLD DOOR OF TOWN COUNCIL HOUSE OF BRÜNN 73
JÍHLAVA (IGLAU), THE GREAT MINING CENTRE IN MORAVIA 77
CATHEDRAL OF OLMÜTZ ON SITE OF CASTLE WHERE WENCESLAUS III. WAS MURDERED 117
LIKENESS TAKEN FROM CHAPEL IN CARLSTEIN 131
CARLSTEIN (KARLUV TYN) 135
MAPS SHOWING GROWTH OF PRAGUE UNDER CHARLES IV. 138, 139
STATUE OF CHARLES IV. NEAR HIS BRIDGE IN PRAGUE 152
KRUMOV, ONE OF THE CHIEF SEATS OF THE ROSENBERGS 169
VILLAGE OF HUSINEC 175
HUSINEC, SHOWING COTTAGE WHERE HUS WAS BORN 176
JAN HUS 179
THE GREAT RING OF PRAGUE. SCENE OF MURDER OF THE OPPONENTS OF THE INDULGENCE 201
MARKET-PLACE OF PRACHATICE, THE TOWN WHERE HUS AND Z̆IZ̆KA WENT TO SCHOOL 228
ENTRANCE INTO FORTIFIED PART OF TABOR 237
HOUSE IN TABOR WITH OLD TABORITE COMMUNION TABLE IN FRONT OF IT 240
FIGURE OF MINER WITH MINING LAMP AND STAFF IN CHURCH OF ST. BARBARA AT KUTTENBERG (KUTNA HORA) 244
KUTNA HORA, OFFICE WHERE THE COINS WERE STRUCK BY THE ITALIANS BROUGHT TO KUTNA HORA BY WENCESLAUS II. 245
TOWN COUNCIL HOUSE OF PILSEN (PLZ̆EN) 246
THE CASTLE OF PRAGUE 251
VIEW OF PRAGUE SHOWING Z̆IZ̆KA’S HILL TO THE NORTH-EAST 256
ROAD NEAR TABOR, SHOWING TOWN WALL 263
Z̆IZ̆KA ON HORSEBACK AT THE HEAD OF THE FLAIL-BEARING TABORITES (FROM AN OLD PICTURE COPIED IN DR. TOMAN’S PAMPHLET) 275
OLD PICTURE OF Z̆IZ̆KA IN HEAVEN (FROM DR. TOMAN’S PAMPHLET) 281
(CHODI) BOHEMIAN PEASANTS OF THE BAVARIAN BORDER 287
JOHN ROKYCANA 295
ZNAYM (ZNOJEM), SCENE OF SIGISMUND’S DEATH 313
GEORGE OF PODĔBRAD, FIRST HERETIC KING OF BOHEMIA 327
JOHN AUGUSTA 381
MORAVIAN WOMAN 429
HALL IN THE CASTLE OF PRAGUE FROM WHENCE MARTINIC AND SLAVATA WERE THROWN 468
PLACE IN FRONT OF TOWN COUNCIL HOUSE OF PRAGUE WHERE THE BOHEMIAN NOBLES WERE EXECUTED AFTER THE INSURRECTION 485
STATUE OF ST. JOHN NEPOMUC 486
CHURCH OF ST. BARBARA AT KUTNA HORA 488
JOHN AMOS KOMENSKY 492
SLOVAK WOMAN FOUND IN PARTS OF MORAVIA AND ALSO IN HUNGARY 505
BOHEMIAN WOMAN WITH “DOVE” HEAD DRESS AND NATIVE WORK 507
[Illustration: BOHEMIA AND MORAVIA.
T. FISHER UNWIN, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.]
THE STORY OF BOHEMIA.