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Valda Kļava. Ziemeļvācijas firsti reformācijā: mērķi un iespējas (Mēklenburgas piemērs) 85<br />
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H. Weczerka, Hg. Stände und Landesherrschaft in Ostmitteleuropa in der frűhen Neuzeit.<br />
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67–90.<br />
Summary<br />
The way the Reformation took root and its dissemination course in Mecklenburg confirms<br />
that, like in other German lands, the possibilities of church and religious reforms<br />
were directly connected with the process of uniting the territories and government<br />
institutionalization. A unified confessional policy in the whole territorial state was<br />
implemented comparatively late due to the fact that the dukes were hindered in their<br />
control of the Reformation process by the power relationships in the domestic policy.<br />
There were several important internal factors that determined the dissemination speed<br />
of the Reformation ideas and the possibilities of purposeful confessional policy in the<br />
dukedom in the first half of the 16 th century: the support the big autonomous sea-trade<br />
towns gave to the Reformation; the successful beginning of the integration of bishoprics<br />
of the dukedom; obstacles caused by land and power division among the representatives<br />
of the ruling houses, as well as actual power dualism.
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