HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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it would allow each German ruler to decide if his realm would follow Catholic or Lutheran. This was necessary because it started a religious war against Protestants in Italy.
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it would allow each German ruler to decide if his realm would follow Catholic or Lutheran. This was necessary because it ended a religious war against Protestants in Germany.
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it would allow each British ruler to decide if his realm would follow Catholic or Lutheran. This was necessary because it ended a religious war against Protestants in Germany.
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it would allow each German ruler to decide if his realm would follow Catholic or Anglican. This was necessary because it ended a religious war against Protestants in Germany.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Augsburg, Peace of (1555) Agreement, reached by the Diet of the Holy Roman Empire in Augsburg, ending the conflict between Roman Catholics and Lutherans in Germany. It established the right of each Prince to decide on the nature of religions practice in his lands, cuius regio, cuius religio.
Detailed explanation-2: -Signed in 1555 as a keystone of the Reformation, the Peace of Augsburgâs key tenet was âwhose realm, his religion, ââ which allowed the princes of states within the realm to adopt either Lutheranism/Calvinism or Catholicism within their respective domains.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Peace of Augsburg, 1555, was a temporary settlement of religious conflict in the Holy Roman Empire. Each prince could now decide whether Lutheranism or Roman Catholicism was to prevail in his land. ("cuius regio, eius religio").
Detailed explanation-4: -The treaty did not accommodate the later different forms of Protestantism, such as Calvinism. Central Europe would not finally be finished with its wars of religion until after the Thirty Yearsâ War and the Peace of Westphalia in 1648.
Detailed explanation-5: -The Peace of Augsburg was the religious resolution to a conflict started in 1517 by Martin Lutherâs 95 Theses. Though it didnât allow for full religious tolerance within the Holy Roman Empire, it did give the Lutherans equal rights with Catholics.