Fulda

On the first news of the Swedish eruption, the Bishop of Würzburg, without regarding the treaty which he had entered into with the King of Sweden, had earnestly pressed the General of the League to hasten to the assistance of the bishopric.

the defeated commander had in the meantime collected on the visor the shattered remnant of his army reinforced himself from the garrisons of lower saxony and effected a junction in hesse with altringer and fugger who commanded under him again at the head of a considerable force till he burned with impatience to wipe out the stain of his first defeat by a splendid victory From his camp at Fulda, whither he had marched with his army, he earnestly requested permission from the Duke of Bavaria to give battle to Gustavus Adolphus.

But in the event of Tilly's defeat, the League had no second army to fall back upon, and Maximilian was too cautious to risk again the fate of his party on a single battle.

With tears in his eyes, Tilly read the commands of his superior, which compelled him to inactivity.

he was even compelled to leave magdeburg itself in their hands the swedish general banner who with eight thousand men remained upon the elbe closely blockaded that city and had defeated several imperial regiments which had been sent to its relief count mansfeld defended it in person with great resolution but his garrison being too weak to oppose for any length of time the numerous force of the besiegers he was already about to surrender on conditions when pappenheim advanced to his assistance and gave employment elsewhere to the swedish arms magdeburg however or rather the wretched huts that peeped out miserably from among the ruins of that once great town was afterwards voluntarily abandoned by the imperialists and immediately taken possession of by the swedes even lower saxony encouraged by the progress of the king ventured to raise its head from the disasters of the unfortunate danish war they held a congress at hamburg and resolved upon raising three regiments which they hoped would be sufficient to free them from the oppressive garrisons of the imperialists the bishop of bremen a relation of gustavus adolphus was not content even with this but assembled troops of his own and terrified the unfortunate monks and priests of the neighbourhood but was quickly compelled by the imperial general count gronsfeld to lay down his arms even george duke of lunenburg formerly a colonel in the emperor's service embraced the party of gustavus for whom he raised several regiments and by occupying the attention of the imperialists in lower saxony materially assisted him but more important service was rendered to the king by the landgrave william of hesse casale whose victorious arms struck with terror the greater part of westphalia and lower saxony the bishopric of fulda and even the electorate of cologne it has been already stated that immediately after the conclusion of the alliance between the landgrave and gustavus adolphus at werben two imperial generals fugger and altringer were ordered by tilly to march into hesse to punish the landgrave for his revolt from the emperor but this prince had as firmly withstood the arms of his enemies as his subjects had the proclamations of Tilly inciting them to rebellion, and the battle of Leipzig presently relieved him of their presence.

He availed himself of their absence with courage and resolution.

In a short time, Wach, Münder, and Hexter surrendered to him, while his rapid advance alarmed the bishoprics of Fulda, Paderborn, and the ecclesiastical territories which bordered on Hesse.

the frightened states hastened by speedy submission to set limits to his progress and by considerable contributions to purchase exemption from plunder after these successful enterprises the landgrave united his victorious army with that of gustavus adolphus and concerted with him at frankfort their future plan of operations in this city a number of princes and ambassadors were assembled to congratulate gustavus on his success and either to conciliate his favor or to appease his indignation among them was the fugitive king of bohemia the palatine frederick v who had hastened from holland to throw himself into the arms of his avenger and protector Gustavus gave him the unprofitable honour of greeting him as a crowned head and endeavoured by a respectful sympathy to soften his sense of his misfortunes.

It was the one that the church couldn't possibly ever encourage or allow people to read as it just went against every single principle of Christian doctrine.

So it's just a total miracle that the last copy, the last manuscript survived long enough in a monastery in Germany, in Fulda, I think, to be discovered by Poggio Bracciolini in the 1400s and really be the text that kickstarted much of the Renaissance and humanist thought.

Italy's food is perhaps its most explored topic.

And we think about shows like the most recent Stanley Tucci searching for Italy.