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The volume surveys seventeenth-century ecclesiastical relations and conflicts across Europe and beyond, tracing Catholic and Protestant attempts to influence Eastern Orthodoxy, Jesuit missionary activity and Reformed outreach, and the Orthodox reaction defending its doctrines. It details the Catholic counter-reformation, conversions of several rulers, and the violent confessional struggles culminating in the Thirty Years War and the Peace of Westphalia. The narrative treats French measures against Protestants, persecutions of dissenting groups, efforts at interconfessional union, and intra-Protestant tensions between Lutheranism and Calvinism, illustrated by regional cases such as Hesse-Cassel and other territorial confessional shifts.
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