STEVE ANDREW enjoys an account of the many communities that flourished independently of and in resistance to the empires of old
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	THE MIDDLE of the 16th century was a time of great uncertainty in Germany. Substantial defeats for nascent Protestantism at the hands of the Catholics led to the 1555 treaty of Augsburg, which established a degree of parity between the two opposing religious factions.
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