Pictures of German Life in the XVth, XVIth, and XVIIth Centuries, Vol. I.
CHAPTER VII.
German Princes At The Imperial Diet (1547)--Luther and Charles V.--The Roman Empire--Possibility of a new confirmation--The man wanting--Princes of the sixteenth century--Charles V.--Narrative of Bartholomaeus Sastrow--Weakness of the Imperial power--Alliance of the German opposition with France--Internal disorganization of the empire