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Title: A general history for colleges and high schools
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Myers, Philip Van Ness, 1846- (from old catalog)
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Boston, Ginn & company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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League. The Hussites. — About the beginning of the fifteenth century,the doctrines of the English reformer, Wycliffe (see p. 490) beganto spread in Bohemia. The chief of the new sect was John Huss,a professor of the University of Prague. The doctrines of thereformer were condemned by the great Council of Constance, andHuss himself, having been delivered over into the hands of thecivil authorities for punishment, was burned at the stake (1415).The following year Jerome of Prague, another reformer, was like-wise burned. Shortly after the burning of Huss a crusade was proclaimedagainst his followers, who had risen in arms. Then began a cruel,desolating war of fifteen years, the outcome of which was thealmost total extermination of the radical party among the Hussites.With the more moderate of the reformers, however, a treaty wasmade which secured them freedom of worship. The Imperial Crown becomes Hereditary in the House ofAustria (1438). — In the year 1438, Albert, Duke of Austria,
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THE IMPERIAL CROWN. 507 was raised by the Electors ^ to the Imperial throne. His accessionmarks an epoch in German history, for from this time until thedissolution of the empire by Napoleon in 1806, the Imperialcrown was regarded as hereditary inthe Hapsburg^ family, the Electors,although never failing to go throughthe formality of an election, almostalways choosing one of the membersof that house as king. From the beginning of the practi-cally uninterrupted succession uponthe Imperial throne of the princes ofthe House of Austria, up to the closeof the Middle Ages, the power andimportance of the family steadily in-creased, until it seemed that Austriawould overshadow all the other Ger-man states,, and subject them to hersway ; would, in a word, become Ger-many, just as Francia in Gaul hadbecome France. But this, as we shalllearn, never came about. The greatest of the Hapsburg lineduring the mediaeval period was Maxi-milian I. (1493-1519). His reign is in every way a noteworthy onein G

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