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Title: Pictures of German Life in the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. II.

Author: Gustav Freytag

Translator: Georgiana Malcolm

Release Date: September 22, 2010 [EBook #33795]

Language: English

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PICTURES OF GERMAN LIFE

IN THE

FIFTEENTH, SIXTEENTH, AND SEVENTEENTH CENTURIES.

* * * * *

VOL. II.

PICTURES

OF

GERMAN LIFE

In the XVth XVIth and XVIIth Centuries.

BY
GUSTAV FREYTAG

Translated from the Original by
MRS. MALCOLM.

_COPYRIGHT EDITION.--IN TWO VOLUMES_.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
CHAPMAN AND HALL, 193 PICCADILLY.
1862.

LONDON: PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS, STAMFORD STREET.

CONTENTS.

SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES.

Introduction--Retrospect of the results of the sixteenth
century--Greater development of individuality--Defects of
Protestantism--A more elevated tone in Catholicism--Contrast of the
Roman and German systems--Political weakness of Protestantism--The
Hapsburgers--Discontent in the people

CHAPTER I.

The Thirty Years' War (1618 to 1638). The Army--Strength of
the Army--Cost--Method of conducting the war--Polit