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Germanicus7 t1_itx1mkx wrote

Reply to comment by wowsosquare in TIL The European 30 Years' War 1618 - 1648 began with Czech nobles throwing two Habsburg governors out of Prague castle window onto a huge dungheap. The corresponding carnage - fought over the issue of religious freedom following the Protestant Reformation - left millions dead. by Royal_Bumblebee_

Netherlands was also big on defenestrations if I remember correctly. (Although nothing beats Putin’s Russia in defenestration enthusiasm)

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wowsosquare t1_itx6d23 wrote

Found this, thought you might find it interesting LoL

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/690123

>...Windows might, at first, seem to be an unlikely topic of historical study; a closer look, however, reveals that their material history and symbolism is closely tied to the history of shifting representations of political power and concepts of sovereignty. Defenestration and other window-related forms of punishment that emerged in this period represent a dark chapter in this history.8 They raise broader questions about the interrelation of the history of architecture and material culture, on the one hand, and political symbolism and culture, on the other, in early modern Europe.

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