CONTENTS Preface ix Acknowledgments xi Chapter 1 1504—A Prince of Hesse: Life at the Dawn of the Sixteenth Century 1 Chapter 2 1509—The Landgrave of Hesse 13 Chapter 3 1521—The Diet of Worms: Martin Luther and the Beginning of the Reformation 25 Chapter 4 The Reformation and the Peasants’ War 43 Chapter 5 Crisis amid Reform 59 Chapter 6 A Season of Crisis—Politics, Religion, and Resistance 79 Chapter 7 England and Hopes Dashed 89 Chapter 8 Philipp and the Radical Reformation 101 Chapter 9 Sex, Lies, and Two Wives 115 Chapter 10 War 125 Chapter 11 The Rise of the Reformed 137
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