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State formation and shared sovereignty : the Holy Roman Empire and the Dutch Republic, 1488-1696 /

In May 1608, several Protestant rulers in the Holy Roman Empire convened an emergency summit in the Swabian town of Auhausen. Weeks earlier, they had walked out of the Imperial Diet, the Empire's main legislative assembly, to protest what they deemed Catholic attempts to undermine the Empire�...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Close, Christopher W. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Netherlands > Politics and government.
Nation-building > Netherlands > History.
Christianity and politics > Netherlands > History.
Netherlands > Foreign relations > Holy Roman Empire.
Holy Roman Empire > Foreign relations > Netherlands.
Alliances.
Sovereignty.
Table of Contents:
  • The Swabian League and the politics of alliance (1488-1534)
  • Alliances and the early Reformation (1526-1545)
  • Alliances and new visions for the Empire and Low Countries (1540-1556)
  • Shared sovereignty and regional peace (1552-1567)
  • Shared sovereignty and multi-confessionality in the Empire and Low Countries (1566-1609)
  • Religious alliance and the legacy of past leagues (1591-1613)
  • Religious alliance and the Thirty Years War (1610-1632)
  • Westphalia and politics of alliance in the Empire and Dutch Republic (1631-1696).