CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY

 

VOLUME III

 

THE WARS OF RELIGION

CHAPTER I.	THE WARS OF RELIGION IN FRANCE By A. J. BUTLER
CHAPTER II.	FRENCH HUMANISM AND MONTAIGNE By A. A. TILLEY
CHAPTER III.	THE CATHOLIC REACTION, AND THE VALOIS AND BÁTHORY ELECTIONS, IN POLAND. By R. NISBET BAIN
CHAPTER IV	THE HEIGHT OF THE OTTOMAN POWER By MORITZ BROSCH
CHAPTER V	THE EMPIRE UNDER FERDINAND I AND MAXIMILIAN II By A. W. WARD
CHAPTER VI.	THE REVOLT OF THE NETHERLANDS. By the Rev. GEORGE EDMUNDSON
CHAPTER VII.	WILLIAM THE SILENT. By the Rev. GEORGE EDMUNDSON
CHAPTER VIII.	MARY STEWART. By THOMAS GRAVES LAW
CHAPTER IX.	THE ELIZABETHAN NAVAL WAR WITH SPAIN. By J. K. LAUGHTON
CHAPTER X	THE LAST YEARS OF ELIZABETH. By SIDNEY LEE
CHAPTER XI	THE ELIZABETHAN AGE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE. By SIDNEY LEE
CHAPTER XII.	TUSCANY
	SAVOY. By E. ARMSTRONG
CHAPTER XIII.	ROME UNDER SIXTUS V. By COUNT UGO BALZANI
CHAPTER XIV.	THE END OF THE ITALIAN RENAISSANCE. By A. J. BUTLER
CHAPTER XV.	SPAIN UNDER PHILIP II. By MARTIN HUME
CHAPTER XVI.	SPAIN UNDER PHILIP III. By MARTIN HUME
CHAPTER XVII.	BRITAIN UNDER JAMES I. By Professor S. R. GARDINER
CHAPTER XVIII.	IRELAND TO THE SETTLEMENT OF ULSTER. By R. DUNLOP
CHAPTER XIX.	THE DUTCH REPUBLIC. By the Rev. G. EDMUNDSON
CHAPTER XX.	HENRY IV OF FRANCE. By STANLEY LEATHES
CHAPTER XXI.	THE EMPIRE UNDER RUDOLF II .By A. W. WARD

CHAPTER XXII.

POLITICAL THOUGHT IN THE SIXTEENTH CENTURY. By the Rev. J. NEVILLE FIGGIS

 

PREFACE

THE present volume, as its title imports, relates a complicated series of conflicts of which the origin or the pretext has for the most part to be sought in the great religious schism with which the preceding volume was concerned. But the cause of the restoration of Catholic unity in the West was, in the minds of both the supporters and the opponents of that cause, inextricably interwoven with the purposes of dynastic ambition, and powerfully affected by influences traceable to the rapid advance of the monarchical principle and to the gradual growth of the conception of the modern national State. Although in graver peril than ever before from the persistent advance of the Ottoman Power, Europe no longer finds a real unifying force in either Papacy or Empire. The spiritual ardor of the Catholic Reaction, which might have served to strengthen the resistance to the general enemy of Christendom, is expended largely on internecine conflicts. It allies itself with the settled resolution of Philip of Spain to control the destinies of Western Europe; and thus there is not a phase of the religious and political struggle here described which remains unconnected with the rest. The Religious Wars of France, with an account of which this volume opens, furnish the most complete instance of the constant intersection of native and foreign influences; but it is illustrated by almost every portion of the narrative. Since, therefore, the story of no European country or group of countries in this troubled period admits of being told as detached from the contemporary history of its neighbors, allies, or adversaries, the same series of events must necessarily appear more than once in these pages as forming an organic part of the history of several countries, but treated in each case from a distinct point of view.

Within the division of Modern History treated in this volume falls the adoption by the majority of European governments of the New Style introduced into the Calendar by Pope Gregory XIII. Events which happened in the history of any country after the adoption by ii of the New Style are dated in that Style accordingly. For the convinience of readers a table showing the several dates of the adoption of the New Style by the chief European governments is printed at the close of this volume.

Among the chapters included in it we are fortunately able to print two, contributed by two eminent historians, whose loss we, in common with all British historical students, deeply deplore. The chapter by the late Mr T. G. Law had the benefit of his own revision; such was not the case with the contribution of the late Professor S. R. Gardiner, one of the earliest received in the course of our undertaking.

A. W. W.
G. W. P.
S. L.
CAMBRIDGE,
November, 1904