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Purdue University Wednesday, September 30, 7:00-9:00 p.m. in STEW 202 RELIGION IN CONFLICT: FROM MARTIN LUTHER TO THE THIRTY YEARS’ WAR (1500-1650) Larry Axel Memorial Lecture The Reformation is generally identified as the period from Martin Luther’s nailing of the 95 Theses in 1517 to the final resolution of the religious and political conflict with the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 that concluded the Thir- ty Years’ War. The first religious clash occurred between Luther and the Ro- man Catholic Church, but other dissenting religious groups quickly followed. This talk will address what was at stake for Luther that he was willing to go head to head with a church that had defined religious truth for over a thou- sand years, why other reform movements found Luther’s message wanting, how political leaders tried to solve the religious conflict, and why a resolution became a reality only at the end of a long war over a century later. Luther and the 95 Theses The signing of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648 Sigrun Haude is Associate Professor of History at the University of Cincinnati. She is the author of In the Shadow of “Savage Wolves”: Anabaptist Münster and the German Reformation During the 1530s (2000) as well as several chapters and articles on the Thirty Years’ War, Anabaptism, and gender, including “The Experience of War” in The Ashgate Research Compan- ion to the Thirty Years’ War (2014). She also edited, along with Melinda Zook, Challenging Orthodoxies: The Social and Cultural Worlds of Early Modern Wom- en (2014). She is currently finishing her monograph, The Thirty Years’ War: Experience and Management of a Disaster (1618-1648). Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies & Religious Studies .

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