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Coda: Oliver Cromwell and the Legacy of Pan-Protestant Heroism

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The transnational legacy of pan-Protestant heroism did not end with the death of Gustavus Adolphus, of course, but the same affiliations, communities of print and belief, and ideological commitments continued to define the literature, and more widely, the worldview of Northern European Protestants, albeit these sentiments were constantly adapting themselves to new circumstances.

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Chovanec, K. (2020). Coda: Oliver Cromwell and the Legacy of Pan-Protestant Heroism. In: Pan-Protestant Heroism in Early Modern Europe. Early Modern Literature in History. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-40705-6_6

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