title: The Specificity of the Formation of the Duchies of Courland and Semigallia in the Confessional Era
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metadata.value: Weber, Dmitriy I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:32:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2018-04-04T14:32:39Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2018-03
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metadata.value: Weber D. I. The Specificity of the Formation of the Duchies of Courland and Semigallia in the Confessional Era. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2018, vol. 63, issue 1, pp. 136–147.
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metadata.value: 10.21638/11701/spbu02.2018.109
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/9283
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: The article examines the specific character of the process of secularization of the Order’s possessions
  in the Baltic region. It explores the formation of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia as
  a result of secularization of possessions of the Livonian branch of the Teutonic Order. The first
  half of the 16th century had brought about political and religious changes of great importance to
  the Baltic States, which had been associated with the spread of Protestantism in the region. Protestant
  duchies were formed out of the possessions of the Catholic religious-military corporation.
  The article focuses on religious questions in general and King Sigismund’s guarantees to the
  classes professing Lutheranism, in particular. First implemented in 1525 by the Prussian Grand
  Master, Albrecht von Brandenburg-Ansbach, secularization was then carried out in 1561 in Livonia
  by landmaster Gotthard von Kettler. The process had resulted in the disappearance of
  Ordensstaat as a political entity and changes in the political map of the region. The article also
  analyses the meeting of the Order’s gebietigers on April 5, 1560, reflecting the mood within the
  religious-military corporation before secularization, which was connected with the military and
  political situation caused by the Livonian war, and religious issues. The given examples signified
  the beginning of the age of Confessionalization as early as the mid-twenties of the XVI century,
  i.e. somewhat earlier than it had been asserted in historiography).
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article was prepared for the project of Russian Foundation for Humanities 16-01-00108 “Institutes,
  theory and practice of Western European monarchies in the XVII–XVIII centuries”.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 63; Issue 1
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Teutonic order
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Reformation
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Baltic region
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: secularization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Duchy of Courland and Semigallia
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Gotthard Keller
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: The Specificity of the Formation of the Duchies of Courland and Semigallia in the Confessional Era
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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