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But now, let's listen to episode 41 of the Thirty Years' War.

Hello and welcome history, friends, patrons all to the Thirty Years' War.

Last time we concluded our examination of the

emperor's policy vis-à-vis the edict of restitution. That edict was, we deduced,

Ferdinand's effort to bring peace to the empire on his own terms, tempered and modified by the

fundamentalists in his ear, as well as his own uncompromising beliefs. The result was

something few, save for the most militant Catholics, could be happy with, largely because they

saw the potential for dissension, which the edict would cause. We concluded that far from bringing

peace, the edict virtually guaranteed that the empire would be divided,

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