The Protestant elector
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Page : 362 pages
File Size : 33,42 MB
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German Histories in the Age of Reformations, 1400-1650
Author : Thomas A. Brady
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 12,72 MB
Release : 2009-07-13
Category : History
ISBN : 052188909X
Book Description
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.
The Great Elector
Author : Derek Mckay
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 33,94 MB
Release : 2018-10-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1317870476
Book Description
In this first biography in English for fifty years, Derek McKay avoids the limitation of seeing Frederick William primarily as precursor of the 'Enlightened' Frederick the Great. Instead, he roots him firmly in his own time, a dynastic, protestant ruler like many another in Germany, but gifted with the toughness and opportunism to overcome the hostility of his local nobilities and of the surrounding great powers.
Ferdinand II, Counter-Reformation Emperor, 1578–1637
Author : Robert Bireley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 43,34 MB
Release : 2014-11-17
Category : History
ISBN : 1316165205
Book Description
Emperor Ferdinand II (1619–37) stands out as a crucial figure in the Counter-Reformation in central Europe, a leading player in the Thirty Years War, the most important ruler in the consolidation of the Habsburg monarchy, and the emperor who reinvigorated the office after its decline under his two predecessors. This is the first biography since a long-outdated one written in German in 1978, and the first ever in English. It looks at his reign as territorial ruler of Inner Austria from 1598 until his election as emperor and especially at the influence of his mother, the formidable Archduchess Maria, in order to understand his later policies as emperor. This book focuses on the consistency of his policies and the profound influence of religion throughout his career, and follows the contest at court between those who favored consolidation of the Habsburg lands and those who aimed for expansion in the empire.
An Address to the Protestant Electors of Great Britain and Ireland
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Page : 34 pages
File Size : 18,22 MB
Release : 1839
Category : Elections
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Luther, Conflict, and Christendom
Author : Christopher Ocker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 539 pages
File Size : 36,19 MB
Release : 2018-08-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1107197686
Book Description
Martin Luther was the subject of a religious controversy that never really came to an end. The Reformation was a controversy about him.
Frederik II and the Protestant Cause
Author : Paul Douglas Lockhart
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9004137904
Book Description
This study of Danish foreign policy in the late sixteenth century examines the efforts of Denmark's King Frederik II (1559-88) to create an international alliance of European Protestants as protection against advances of Counter-Reformation Catholicism.
The Protestant Theological and Ecclesiastical Encyclopedia
Author : John Henry Augustus Bomberger
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Page : 786 pages
File Size : 35,29 MB
Release : 1860
Category : Religion
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Anglo-German Relations and the Protestant Cause
Author : David S. Gehring
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,31 MB
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1317320190
Book Description
Challenging accepted notions of Elizabethan foreign policy, Gehring argues that the Queen’s relationship with the Protestant Princes of the Holy Roman Empire was more of a success than has been previously thought. Based on extensive archival research, he contends that the enthusiastic and continual correspondence and diplomatic engagement between Elizabeth and these Protestant allies demonstrate a deeply held sympathy between the English Church and State and those of Germany and Denmark.
The Duty of Orange Electors
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Page : 20 pages
File Size : 34,4 MB
Release : 1859
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