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CHAPTER III.
THE CATHOLIC REACTION, AND THE VALOIS AND BATHORY
ELECTIONS, IN POLAND.
By R. NISBET BAIN, Assistant Librarian of the British Museum.
Poland after the battle of Mohacs . . . . . . . .
Heresy and reform in Poland. Calvinism. Jan Laski . . . .
Stanislaus Orzechowski. The Bohemian Brethren in Poland .
Accession of Sigismund II Augustus, 1548
Condition of the Church
The szlachta and the Reformation
The Reformers assume the offensive. Synods of Pinczow and Kozminek
Protestantism at its height in Poland, 1558-9
Beginning of the Catholic Reaction
Commendone's mission, 1563-5
Recovery of Catholicism. Union of Lublin. Cardinal Hosius .
Death of Sigismund II Augustus . . . . . . . .
Interregnum. Compact of Warsaw, 1573
Meeting of Election Diet
Election of Henry of Anjou. The pacta conventa
His coronation, 1574 . . . . . . . . . . .
Difficulties of his position
His flight back to France
Second interregnum
Diet of Steczyc, 1575.
Tartars in East Poland. Election Diet of Warsaw. The candidates and
their advocates . . . . . . . . . .
Intervention of Jan Zamoyski
Elections of Maximilian II
and of Stephen Bathory ,
State entry and coronation of Stephen, 1576 ^
King Stephen and the Nuncio Laureo .
Stephen's foreign policy Surrender of Danzig • • • . . .
His Muscovite campaigns
His domestic policy
His death, 1586
CHAPTER IV.
THE HEIGHT OF THE OTTOMAN POWER
By MORITZ BBOSCH, Ph.D.
Franco-Turkish alliance, 1535-6
Turkish and Christian barbarism
Difficulties of Charles V and King Ferdinand . . . . . .
Solyman's expedition into Austria, 1532. Check at Guns
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