The ideal of Christendom as a whole, with Pope and Emperor at its head, gave way to the notion of the godly prince; and potent in some respects as was Luther's nationalist influence, it was not so much the German people as the sovereign territorial prince that reaped the benefit.

— John Neville Figgis Studies of Political Thought from Gershon to Grotius, 1414–1625 (1907)

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