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De Abstinentia Primorvm Saxoniae Electorvm Principvm In Svscipienda Stabiliendaqve Lvtheri Doctrina. 2
Wagner, Benedikt Samuel; Freyberg, Carl Daniel
No prior complete English translation of this text has been found.
Extensive searches across multiple scholarly catalogs (including local catalogs, Google Books, Internet Archive, and Library of Congress) yielded no evidence of any English translation of this 1752 Latin academic dissertation by Carl Daniel Freyberg. The work appears to be a specialized 18th-century German academic text that has not been translated into English.
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Did the Saxon Electors embrace the Reformation for spiritual truth or for the sake of plunder? Wagner and Freyberg strip away centuries of revisionist suspicion to argue that these leaders acted from genuine conviction. This text provides a sharp, philological defense of the moral character of the early Protestant princes.