Religious Aspects of the post-White Mountain Confiscations : the Punishment of the Estates Uprising as a Sign of Recatholicisation and the Counter-Reformation
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| Year of publication | 2024 |
| Type | Article in Proceedings |
| Conference | LA CHIESA DI SANTA MARIA DELLA VITTORIA A ROMA UNA TESTIMONIANZA FONDAMENTALE DELLA STORIA EUROPEA : Nella ricorrenza dei 400 anni dalla dedica della chiesa alla Madonna vincitrice della battaglia della Montagna Bianca 6 – 7 maggio 2022 Volume secondo Da Lepanto a Bila Hora – Maria “potens in proelio” |
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| Keywords | White Mountain; Estates Revolt; Habsburg Dynasty; Counter-Reformation; Confiscation; Nobility; Liechtenstein |
| Description | The contribution analyses the religious dimension of the large confiscations of property and fiefdoms belonging to the rebels defeated in the Battle of the White Mountain. White Mountain. In the imperial political-religious design, the confiscations were to favour the consolidation of Catholicism as the only legitimate religion and accelerate the change of the system of state power in the Bohemian Lands, centralising its institutions and firmly integrating the Catholic confession. |