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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