ASIN: B01KS20UOA
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 466
GERMANY stands in the centre of Europe, and on her soil all the great international struggles have been fought, – the Thirty Years’ War, the early campaigns of the Spanish Succession War, the Seven Years’ War, the gigantic wars against Napoleon. It is the custom for modern educators to recommend the study of the history of France as a guiding thread through the intricacies of general European history; but is this choice justifiable? The two great, omnipresent factors of the whole mediæval period are the Papacy and the Empire; the Empire was German from the ninth to the nineteenth century, – from the days of Charlemagne until the days of Francis II., – and the Empire interfered in the affairs of the Papacy and of Italy far more than did France. When we come to the period of the Reformation, surely Luther and his kind were more prominent than the. French reformers, and the Emperor ...
