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Picture This: A book of miracles

THE MIDDLE of the 16th century was a time of great uncertainty in Germany. Substantial defeats for nascent Protestantism at the hands of the Catholics led to the 1555 treaty of Augsburg, which established a degree of parity between the two opposing religious factions.

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