Chapter 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

T. FISHER UNWIN, PATERNOSTER SQUARE, LONDON, E.C.]

THE STORY OF BOHEMIA.