Robert Von Friedeburg: 2 books
Luther's Legacy
The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of 'State' in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2016
In this new account of the emergence of a distinctive territorial state in early modern Germany, Robert von Friedeburg examines how the modern notion of state does not rest on the experience of a bureaucratic state-apparatus. It emerged to stabilize monarchy from dynastic insecurity and constrain...
Self-Defence and Religious Strife in Early Modern Europe
England and Germany, 1530–1680
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2017
Recent research has begun to highlight the importance of German arguments about legitimate resistance and self-defence for French, English and Scottish Protestants. This book systematically studies the reception of German thought in England, arguing that it played a much greater role than has hitherto...