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German History, Volume 36, Issue 2, June 2018, Pages 252–270, https://doi.org/10.1093/gerhis/ghx121
Published: 13 December 2017
.../about_us/legal/notices ) Thirty Years War Peace of Westphalia war violence diplomacy Holy Roman Empire The Thirty Years War (1618–1648) remains a defining event in early modern European history generally, and in German history more particularly. It is still widely considered to mark major political...
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Published: 25 November 2021
.... The Prince of Orange, Frederick Henry, carries out his final military movements before his death in March 1647. The new Prince, William II, opposed his mother Amalia over the Peace of Westphalia. Elizabeth’s nephew Charles Stuart arrived in The Hague and the king her brother is executed by Parliament. Amalia...
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Published: 03 April 2011
... was the universalizing juridical language of natural law. What was forged in the process, culminating iconically in the Peace of Westphalia of 1648 and Thomas Hobbes' masterpiece Leviathan of 1651, is commonly taken to have been nothing other than the modern, territorial nation-state. city Hobbes...
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Published: 23 March 2017
... in the Austrian and Bohemian lands. ‘In the service of the faith: 17th and 18th centuries’ outlines his rule and the work of his immediate successors. It also describes the ‘Thirty Years War’ (1618–48), the Peace of Westphalia that ended the conflict, and the end of the Habsburgs’ global empire with the death...
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Published: 22 August 2016
... of contemporary governance and administration are popularly attributed to the birth of the modern state that emerged with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. democracy Peace of Westphalia popular sovereignty Westphalian Treaty English Civil War 1642–9 Hobbes Thomas United Kingdom UK Locke John United States...
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Published: 25 November 2004
... Photian schism 836–7 Reformation urbanization Augustinism Luther Martin printing sin Word Calvin John Geneva Grace morality salvation Anabaptists Baptist Church Mennonites Peace of Westphalia 1648 pacifism apostolic succession St Thomas Aquinas Bible Catholic church Holy Roman Empire...
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Published: 27 September 2022
...This chapter discusses the Thirty Years' War. Whilst the roots of the war varied, the central ideology within the war had been the attempts to impose Catholicism on kingdoms and imperial states. Peace was only brought by the Peace of Westphalia through a diplomatic system that embodied modern...
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Published: 05 January 2017
... on this topic; Nora Markard for expressing to me her doubts about the very sense of this idea; and Paul Ursell for helping me with my English. Relying on a reinterpretation of Grotius and the Peace of Westphalia, this chapter proposes that not only the state, but also the empire, and the company are full...
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Published: 24 November 2011
.... The war wrought huge destruction but it also resulted in the Peace of Westphalia, a new constitutional law that endured until 1806. Key figures in this section are Frederick the ‘Winter King’, Wallenstein, Gustavus Adolphus, Bernhard of Weimar, Maximilian of Bavaria. Brecht Bertold writer Fest Joachim...
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Published: 10 June 1993
... with the Peace of Westphalia of 1648. obligation political Grotius H natural law Bull H state the and international society diplomacy international law social contract China Confucian world order Cicero Roman Empire Stoics jus gentium Christendom Wolff C von Charlemagne Holy Roman Empire Leo...
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Published: 18 May 2023
... Johann 1555 1621 Deutsch Passional Schwenckfeld Hoburg Christian 1607–1675 Lutheranism Mengering Arnold 1596–1647 Peace of Westphalia 1648 Bürger Hans Helt Adolf 1592–1662 Merian Matthäus 1593 1650 Prophets Stade Gustav Adolf of Sweden 1594–1632 Oxenstierna Axel 1583–1654 Peace of Prague...
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Published: 24 August 2023
... by the Peace of Westphalia (1648), not only redrew the existing boundaries, but also tilted the balance in favor of a territorial model that already existed, if only as an aspirational principle. Let s call this aspirational model mosaic territoriality. In its simplest form, mosaic territoriality is built...
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Published online: 20 June 2019
Published in print: 01 March 2019
... trauma , has shaped the country s identity and history until today. In retrospect, several conflicts cul- minated in the Thirty Years War and it took three decades until the Peace of Westphalia brought an end to the protracted conflict. Four hundred years after the outbreak of the Thirty Years War, which...
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Published online: 24 August 2023
Published in print: 01 November 2023
... by the Peace of Westphalia (1648), not only redrew the existing boundaries, but also tilted the balance in favor of a territorial model that already existed, if only as an aspirational principle. Let s call this aspirational model mosaic territoriality. In its simplest form, mosaic territoriality is built...
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Published: 17 November 2022
..., especially after 1648 While this old view of absolutism has largely been replaced by a more nuanced picture it is still a widespread belief in the existing historiography that in the period after the Peace of Westphalia (1648) the scope for and occurrence of such interferences in other states domestic...
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Published: 18 May 2021
...” peoples to the supposedly beneficial rule of “civilized” powers. Covering the period from the Peace of Westphalia to the end of the Cold War, the chapter provides particular attention to key developments in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries—an especially innovative period in the international...
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Published: 16 August 2023
...This chapter revisits debates on the significance of the Peace of Westphalia as a benchmark date marking the advent of the modern system of sovereign states. Following a précis of the context and content of the treaties that comprised the Peace of Westphalia, I survey International Relations (IR...
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Published: 31 October 2013
... Cotonou Agreement Cyprus Kosovo European Union Peace of Westphalia Cold War 1989 Professor Romano Prodi's lecture on ‘Europe and peace’, delivered on 1 April 2004, came at a particularly important juncture in European affairs, not least since the Constitutional Treaty was being advanced under...
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Published: 17 November 2022
... theorist Suárez Francisco theorist Vattel Emer de theorist Imperial constitutional law law of nations law of nature intervention state sovereignty Peace of Westphalia Hugo Grotius Emer de Vattel Samuel Pufendorf Alberico Gentili Various constitutional arrangements formed the legal foundations...
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Published: 17 November 2022
...Intervention and State Sovereignty in Central Europe, 1500–1780. Patrick Milton, Oxford University Press.© Patrick Milton 2022. DOI: 10.1093/oso/9780192871183.003.0005 The Peace of Westphalia legally empowered its guarantors to intervene—militarily if need be—in the domestic...