The Consequences of the Fiasco of Pope Paul III’s Crusade to Germany on the Subsequent Political and Confessional Development
摘要
At the turn of the years 1546 and 1547, Emperor Charles V[aut]Charles V felt like a clear victor over the Lutheran opposition in the Roman-German Empire. The Schmalkaldic League had de jure ceased to exist, even though its two former main representatives were still eluding the emperor. Landgrave Philip of Hesse[aut]Hesse, Philip of was already “out of the game”.