Lutheran and Catholic Reunionists in the Age of Bismarck

Religious division has determined Germany's destiny. In the Middle Ages, it was the struggle between Emperor and Pope which doomed the Holy Roman Empire. During the Reformation, and the Thirty Years' War, it was Protestantism as well as the anti-Imperial diplomacy of the Pope and the Frenc...

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Main Author: Fleischer, Manfred P. 1928- (Author)
Format: Electronic/Print Article
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge University Press [1969]
In: Church history
Year: 1969, Volume: 38, Issue: 1, Pages: 43-66
Online Access: Volltext (doi)
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Summary:Religious division has determined Germany's destiny. In the Middle Ages, it was the struggle between Emperor and Pope which doomed the Holy Roman Empire. During the Reformation, and the Thirty Years' War, it was Protestantism as well as the anti-Imperial diplomacy of the Pope and the French cardinals, which prevented the emergence of a national state and a centralized government. “From the split of the church dates all our misfortune,” complained in 1846 the Lutheran historian Johann Friedrich Böhmer, editor of a major medieval source collection.
ISSN:0009-6407
Contains:Enthalten in: Church history
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3163648