German histories in the age of Reformations, 1400-1650
This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) preve...
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| Format: | Electronic Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2009.
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| In: | Year: 2009 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Germany
/ Church history studies 1400-1650
B Germany / Reformation / History B Germany / Political change / Religious change / History 1400-1650 |
| Further subjects: | B
Germany ; History
B Reformation ; Germany B Germany ; Church history B Reformation Germany B Germany Church history B Reformation (Germany) B Germany History |
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Print version: 9780521889094 |
| Summary: | This book studies the connections between the political reform of the Holy Roman Empire and the German lands around 1500 and the sixteenth-century religious reformations, both Protestant and Catholic. It argues that the character of the political changes (dispersed sovereignty, local autonomy) prevented both a general reformation of the Church before 1520 and a national reformation thereafter. The resulting settlement maintained the public peace through politically structured religious communities (confessions), thereby avoiding further religious strife and fixing the confessions into the Empire's constitution. The Germans' emergence into the modern era as a people having two national religions was the reformation's principal legacy to modern Germany. |
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| Item Description: | Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) |
| ISBN: | 0511627025 |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/CBO9780511627026 |