The Protestant Power of Attorney of 1531: A Legalistic History of the Early Reformation in Germany
ON JUNE 9, 1531, a group of two dozen princes and city councils from various corners of the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire drafted a “power of attorney” in which they appointed two lawyers to represent them collectively in all disputes in which “one or more of us is sued on account of our hol...
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Zusammenfassung: | ON JUNE 9, 1531, a group of two dozen princes and city councils from various corners of the German lands of the Holy Roman Empire drafted a “power of attorney” in which they appointed two lawyers to represent them collectively in all disputes in which “one or more of us is sued on account of our holy faith, religion, ceremonies, and what attaches to them.”¹ The power of attorney was part of a defensive legal strategy that had been formulated in the wake of a threatening pronouncement at the 1530 Augsburg Diet (imperial assembly). There the emperor and the majority |
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DOI: | 10.1515/9780823283736-011 |