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From the very beginning, the question of religious reform was so inextricably linked to political issues that it could never give rise to an unpolitical Reformation. Politics created complications at three levels, most of which overlapped: ecclesiastical, communal, and territorial-imperial politics.
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Scribner, R.W., Dixon, C.S. (2003). Politics and the Reformation. In: The German Reformation. Studies in European History. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-230-21253-4_5
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