The Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648

Samuel Rawson Gardiner

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CHAPTER I. CAUSES OF THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR.

Section I.—Political Institutions of Germany.

§ 1. Want of national institutions in Germany.

It was the misfortune of Germany in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries that, with most of the conditions requisite for the formation of national unity, she had no really national institutions. There was an emperor, who looked something like an English king, and a Diet, or General Assembly, which looked something like an English Parliament, but the resemblance was far greater in appearance than in reality.

§ 2. The Emperor.

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