30YearsWar #2: The Small Print

When Diplomacy Fails Podcast

Zack Twamley

Phd, International Relations, Korean War, European History, 17th Century, 18th Century, Politics, 20th Century, Thirty Years' War, History, 19th Century, War, First World War

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Matchlock is a historical fiction series set during the Thirty Years' War, beginning in 1622, when Matthew Lock lands in Europe to investigate the brutal murder of his parents.

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The Holy Roman Empire was a unique place, full of unique laws, unique settlements and very unique rulers. Unique is just a polite way of saying, that the HRE was a freakin’ mess, but it is a mess which we have to acquaint ourselves with if we’re to stand any chance of understanding the event which it housed – the Thirty Years War. It was in the lands of this sort of state/sort of empire that the events of this conflict were played out. It was fanned and exacerbated by men like Electors and Emperors, it was driven by arguments over religion and constitutions, and it was empowered by actors outside of the Empire, who had their eye on manipulating the situation to their advantage.

Our focus in this episode goes to 1555, where a settlement between protestant and catholic agents was agreed. The Peace of Augsburg, the religious and profane peace, as it would come to be known, was a crucial milestone in the history of the Empire, but it is also vital to our understanding of the conflict which followed three generations later. How did the Empire work, what did the Electors did, how did the Emperor get elected, what did the whole thing look like in practice – all of these are questions which we will get to grips with in this episode, so I hope you’ll join me!

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0:00.0	Can I have it back now?
0:02.3	Ammo.
0:04.8	That's not a toy, that's Daddy's.
0:07.9	No, no, no.
0:10.4	Not in the loop.
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0:28.5	underwritten by UK Insurance Limited. You're listening to the Thirty Years' War by When Diplomacy Fails, Episode 2. The 1555 piece of Augsburg was known to its contemporaries as the religious and profane piece,
1:19.6	and it's known today for its ultimately doomed effort to ease the religious tensions of the Holy Roman Empire.
1:26.9	However, a closer examination of the actual text which constituted this agreement demonstrates
1:32.9	that, this section on confessional differences formed only a small part of the wide-ranging
1:39.6	reform package agreed by the Reichstag.
1:43.3	Additional issues were also discussed, such as adjusting the public peace, revising imperial
1:49.7	tax quotas, and providing new regulations on currency.
1:54.1	This according to the historian Peter H. Wilson.
2:00.4	Augsburg contained no statements on religious doctrine or the actual expression of faith.
2:06.4	Instead, the major drive was aimed at bringing both Catholics and Lutherans within the same legal framework,
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