"Here, in the heartland of Europe, three denominations vied for dominance: Roman Catholicism…

…vil War was primarily political. Up to 400,000 people died in the French Wars of Religion (1562–98). The Thirty Years War (1618–48) saw off between 3 million and 11.5 million souls. Even in Spain, where there was no religious war, …
Being The Wrong Sort Of Christian Could Be Fatal In The 16th/17th Centuries
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John Welford
K Seles
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Jun 2, 2022
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"Here, in the heartland of Europe, three denominations vied for dominance: Roman Catholicism, Lutheranism, and Calvinism."
"The ancient notion of a Roman Catholic empire of Europe, headed spiritually by a pope and temporally by an emperor, was permanently abandoned, and the essential structure of modern Europe as a community of sovereign states was established."
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Architect by vocation. Individualist by inclination. Political sociologist, anthropologist, rationalist, philosophist, and cosmologist by avocation.
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