CHAPTER XII.
CHARACTER OF MAXIMILIAN .-- SUCCESSION OF RHODOLPH III.
From 1576 to 1604.
Character of Maximilian .-- His Accomplishments .-- His Wife .-- Fate of his Children .-- Rhodolph III .-- The Liberty of Worship .-- Means of Emancipation .-- Rhodolph's Attempts against Protestantism .-- Declaration of a higher Law .-- Theological Differences .-- The Confederacy at Heilbrun .-- The Gregorian Calendar .-- Intolerance in Bohemia .-- The Trap of the Monks .-- Invasion of the Turks .-- Their Defeat .-- Coalition with Sigismond .-- Sale of Transylvania .-- Rule of Basta .-- The Empire captured and recaptured .-- Devastation of the Country .-- Treatment of Stephen Botskoi.

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