AI-powered
podcast player
Listen to all your favourite podcasts with AI-powered features
The Reformation and the War of Religions in Europe
An early event that revealed the reformations potential to destabilize the existing political order was the peasants war. There were wars of religion in switzerland around 15 30, in the holy roman empire, with the brief shmalcaldic war in the middle of the sixteenth century. Even those who weren't in a position to declare war sought to resist rulers whose religious convictions they did not share.