sixteen zero nine protestant bohemia is guaranteed freedom of worship. but nine years later emperor ferdinand reverses the decree. in response protestant nobles march into prague castle and threw three of the emperor s representatives out of the windows. they survive the so-called defenestration of prague by landing in a dung heap anything window but the emperor refuses to accept any attack on his authority and the battle for faith and power takes its course so and that s when the confessor inspection and screen as soon as we start to talk about the forced religious conversion i m likely to mobilize all the reserves i have left to resist this is and that of course is a fundamental importance in a war like the thirty years war where after all what s at stake is the certainty of salvation for guns and i love the title. the people of europe are leading their