Book contents
- State Formation and Shared Sovereignty
- State Formation and Shared Sovereignty
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 The Swabian League and the Politics of Alliance (1488–1534)
- 2 Alliances and the Early Reformation (1526–1545)
- 3 Alliances and New Visions for the Empire and the Low Countries (1540–1556)
- 4 Shared Sovereignty and Regional Peace (1552–1567)
- 5 Shared Sovereignty and Multi-confessionality in the Empire and the Low Countries (1566–1609)
- 6 Religious Alliance and the Legacy of Past Leagues (1591–1613)
- 7 Religious Alliance and the Thirty Years’ War (1610–1632)
- 8 Westphalia and Politics of Alliance in the Empire and the Dutch Republic (1631–1696)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
2 - Alliances and the Early Reformation (1526–1545)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 March 2021
- State Formation and Shared Sovereignty
- State Formation and Shared Sovereignty
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Maps
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Maps
- Introduction
- 1 The Swabian League and the Politics of Alliance (1488–1534)
- 2 Alliances and the Early Reformation (1526–1545)
- 3 Alliances and New Visions for the Empire and the Low Countries (1540–1556)
- 4 Shared Sovereignty and Regional Peace (1552–1567)
- 5 Shared Sovereignty and Multi-confessionality in the Empire and the Low Countries (1566–1609)
- 6 Religious Alliance and the Legacy of Past Leagues (1591–1613)
- 7 Religious Alliance and the Thirty Years’ War (1610–1632)
- 8 Westphalia and Politics of Alliance in the Empire and the Dutch Republic (1631–1696)
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
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 SovereigntyThe Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488–1690, pp. 56 - 95Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021