Before the great war: Europe between compromise and confrontation 1598-1656

拟议中的研究是重新审视三十年战争爆发前的时期。尽管德国的研究经常强调1618年前西欧政治和宗教的紧张局势日益加剧，但法国宗教战争的结束以及随后西班牙与英国（1604年）和西班牙与荷兰（1609年）之间的条约似乎为缓解长期以来蹂躏欧洲大部分地区的宗教和政治冲突创造了机会。1598 - 1609年间达成的新协议并不局限于高级政治和外交领域，尽管它最终被证明是脆弱的。相反，有组织的宗教在某种程度上适应了对立宗教对真理的主张之间冲突的僵局，同时政治理论和学术界试图为超越严格的信仰忠诚的知识和政治权威找到基础。计划中的专著既要研究和平或至少某种临时办法的倡导者与拒绝任何妥协的人之间的竞争，也要研究这一时期的持久遗产，这一遗产确实对政治权威的概念产生了长期影响。（及其与教会权力主张的关系），以及试图找到沟通的语言，哲学或新的科学（在这一时期首次出现）可以重新团结分裂的Christianitas。

The proposed study is to take a fresh look at the period immediately preceding the outbreak of the Thirty Years War. Whereas German research has often emphasized the increasing tensions shaping politics and religion before 1618 in Western Europe the end of the Wars of Religion in France and the subsequent treaties between Spain and England (1604) and Spain and the Netherlands (1609) seemed to create a chance for defusing the religious and political conflicts which had ravaged large parts of Europe for such a long time. But the new settlement, fragile as it turned out to be in the end, achieved between 1598 and 1609 was not limited to the realm of high politics and diplomacy. Rather organised religion adapted itself to some extent to the stalemate in the conflict between rival religious claims to truth and at the same time political theory and scholarship tried to find foundations both for knowledge and political authority which transcended the boundaries of strict confessional allegiance. The planned monograph wants to look both at the contest between advocates of peace or at least some kind of modus vivendi and those rejecting any sort of compromise and at the lasting legacy of this period which did have a long term impact both on concepts of political authority (and its relationship with ecclesiastical claims to power) and on attempts to find languages of communication be they those of jurisprudence, of philosophy or of the new science (which saw its first beginnings during this period) which could reunited a divided Christianitas.