Luther's Legacy : The Thirty Years War and the Modern Notion of 'State' in the Empire, 1530s to 1790s

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Von Friedeburg investigates the emergence of the territorial state in early modern Germany, examining Germany's transformation of Lutheran and Neo-Aristotelian notions of civil order under the impact of the Thirty Years War. The book analyses the intellectual debates which contributed to the making of a modern notion of 'state'.