The Defenestration of Prague: A Window to War
Try to imagine: Prague, May 23, 1618. The air in Prague Castle hung thick with tension, a palpable mix of religious fervor and political defiance. For years, the Protestant Bohemian estates had chafed under the increasingly autocratic and Catholic rule of the Habsburg emperors. The Emperor Ferdinand II, a fervent Catholic, had been systematically eroding … Read more