constitutes the distinctive superiority of Protestant over Popish
nations--again my book will have done its work.

If, lastly, it shall awaken one pious Protestant to recognise, in
some, at least, of the Saints of the Middle Age, beings not only of
the same passions, but of the same Lord, the same faith, the same
baptism, as themselves, _Protestants_, not the less deep and true,
because utterly unconscious and practical--mighty witnesses against
the two antichrists of their age--the tyranny of feudal caste, and
the phantoms which Popery substitutes for the living Christ--then
also will my little book indeed have done its work. C. K.

1848.



CHARACTERS



Elizabeth, daughter of the King of Hungary,
Lewis, Landgrave of Thuringia, betrothed to her in childhood.
Henry, brother of Lewis.
Walter of Varila, }
Rudolf the Cupbearer, }
Leutolf of Erlstetten, }
Hartwig of Erba, } Vassals of Lewis.
Count Hugo, }
Count of Saym, etc. }
Conrad of Marpurg, a Monk, the Pope's Commissioner for the