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Through the Peace of Augsburg (1555) and its later pendant, the Peace of Westphalia (1648), the Holy Roman Empire was able to resolve problems emanating from church fission by erecting a system of bi-confessionality and parity. Controlled interaction between Catholics and Protestants within the Reichsverband (and in a plethora of bi-confessional territories and cities) were constitutive of the situation...