Table of Contents:
  • Reflecting dynastic destinies: mirror of prince literature and Wittelsbach education
  • Patronage and piety: the confessionalization of Wittelsbach courts in Heidelberg and Munich
  • Confessional frontiers and border wars: the confessionalization of Bavaria and the Palatinate
  • Wedding bells and cannon fire: Wittelsbach confessional diplomacy
  • A winter's tale: the "Winter King" and the court at Prague
  • Image-breaking: iconoclasm and identity crisis
  • Clarion calls: White Mountain and Wittelsbach legitimacy
  • Metamorphosis: the Palatinate in transition and the "Bohemian" court in exile at The Hague
  • Appendix A: Wittelsbach genealogy (1300-1550)
  • Appendix B: Palatine Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650)
  • Appendix C: Bavarian Wittelsbachs genealogy (1550-1650).