TY - BOOK AU - Friedeburg,Robert von TI - Luther's legacy: the thirty years war and the modern notion of 'state' in the empire, 1530s to 1790s SN - 1107111870 U1 - 943.03 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - State, the KW - istory KW - Germany KW - history KW - historia N1 - Bibliography : pages 388 - 433; Index : pages 434 - 441; Introducction -- Meinecke's riddle: 'reason of state' and reformation prudence -- Royal rights and princely dynasties in late medieval and early modern Germany, fourteenth to early seventeeth centuries -- Civil order and princely rigths, 1450s to 1580s: the making of the elements -- The challenge of 'reason of state', 1600s to 1650s -- The catastrophe of war and the partial collapse of relations between princes and vassals -- The re-establishing of compromise and the new use of the elements: seckendorff, pufendorf and the dissemination of the new concep of 'state' -- Readings of despotism: the attack on 'war-despotism' between bodin and montesquieu; P136; P135; P134; P133; P144; P143; P87; P35; P20; P14; P10; P06 ER -