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2 - Alliances and the Early Reformation (1526–1545)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 March 2021

Christopher W. Close
Affiliation:
St Joseph's University, Philadelphia
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Chapter 2 charts how the Reformation’s spread, coupled with its vulnerability in many territories, created new religious alliances such as the Protestant Schmalkaldic League and the Catholic League of Nuremberg. Both leagues experienced internal conflicts over their operation that burst into the open in 1542 when the Schmalkaldic League’s chiefs attacked one of the League of Nuremberg’s leaders, Duke Heinrich of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Through the comparative analysis of multiple contemporaneous leagues, this chapter shows how the Reformation and its interaction with the imperial political system depended on the politics of alliance but also remade how such politics operated.

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State Formation and Shared Sovereignty
The Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488–1690
, pp. 56 - 95
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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