Changes: 1635: The Cannon Law

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1635: The Cannon Law (Eric Flint and Andrew Dennis, Baen, 2006) is the second novel in the Southern European thread, which began with 1634: The Galileo Affairin the alternate history 1632 series.

The book explores the reactions of the Roman Catholic hardliners to Pope Urban VIII actions in tolerating the new religious freedom taking root in Central Europe during the climax of The Galileo Affair.

Like all the preceding books in the series, it is set in the Thirty Years' War. The series deals with history and political life, American culture and a host of other things taken for granted in today's First World countries.

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-'''''[[File:The_Cannon_Law.jpg|thumb]]1635: The Cannon Law''''' is the second novel in the French-Italian plot thread, which began with ''[[1634: The Galileo Affair]]'', in Eric Flint's alternate history 1632 series, and was published by Baen Books in 2006. In the view of the series creator "History" is not written by the actions of great figures, but by the many individual actions of everyday people acting on their own behalf. This attitude is reflected in such plot thread off-shoots which focus on events in other central loci, where the actions in large part are carried out by travelers, as the main thread takes place in closer proximity to Grantville, West Virginia in its new home in central Germany in other works of the set.
+'''''[[File:The_Cannon_Law.jpg|thumb]]1635: The Cannon Law''''' ([[Eric Flint]] and [[Andrew Dennis]], Baen, 2006) is the second novel in the [[Southern European thread]], which began with ''[[1634: The Galileo Affair]]''in the [[alternate history]] [[1632 series]].
+The book explores the reactions of the [[Roman Catholic]] hardliners to [[Pope Urban VIII]] actions in tolerating the new religious freedom taking root in Central Europe during the climax of ''The Galileo Affair''.
-But like real places and events, such threads tangle and cross and affect one another, and that is the general character of the series, one part does not stand alone as if it were a separate sub-series, but the alternate history each book explores becomes a part of the setting and exposition in the others of later dates.
+Like all the preceding books in the series, it is set in the [[Thirty Years' War]]. The series deals with history and political life, American culture and a host of other things taken for granted in today's First World countries.
-Like all the books in the series since the initial exploratory 1632, it is a work of collaboration between another and Flint. It was co-written by Andrew Dennis based on a likely background scenario he'd suggested in exploring the always prevalent questions explored in the series—what would the likely course of events be upon European and world history if an average small town of limited resources disseminated its knowledge, attitudes, experience with democracy, and prejudices during the turbulent birth era of the modern world as it shook off the vestiges of the Late Middle Ages. The book in this case explores the reactions of the Roman Catholic hardliners to the Pope's actions in tolerating the new freedom of religious freedom taking root in Central Europe during the climax of The Galileo Affair.
-Like all the preceding books in the series, it is set in the Thirty Years' War. The series deals with history and political life, American culture and a host of other things taken for granted in today's First World countries.