Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536 [electronic resource].
Housley, Norman.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008.
Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. Norman Housley examines the spectrum of conflicts waged in God's name in the period from the Later Crusades to the early Reformation, arguing that the religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries sprang from deeply rooted proclivities within European society. - ;Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this intelligent and readable study, the distinguished Crusade historian Norman Housley describes and analyses the principal expressions of holy war in the period from the Hussite w
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CONTENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; 1. THE SUBJECT: RELIGIOUS WARFARE IN THE LATE MIDDLE AGES AND EARLY REFORMATION; 1.1 The study of religious warfare: approaches and problems; 1.2 The contexts of conflict, c.1300-1536; 2. A CRUCIBLE OF RELIGIOUS WARFARE: BOHEMIA DURING THE HUSSITE WARS, 1400-1436; 3. THE CHRISTIAN COMMONWEALTH OF EUROPE, 1436-1536; 3.1 The commonwealth challenged, 1436-1517; 3.2 The commonwealth divided, 1517-1536; 4. THE ASSEMBLING OF AUTHORITY: SCRIPTURE, MESSIANIC INDIVIDUALS, AND SYMBOLS; 4.1 Texts; 4.2 Figures; 4.3 Symbols and communities; 4.4 Conclusion; 5. THE THREE TURKS
5.1 External Turks: the Ottomans5.2 Internal Turks: 'worse than the Turks'; 5.3 The interior Turk; 5.4 The images combined: Thomas More and the Turks; 6. THE CRITIQUE OF RELIGIOUS WAR; 6.1 The problem of agency; 6.2 Condemnation; 6.3 War and conversion; 6.4 Conclusion; 7. CONCLUSION: PERSPECTIVES; 7.1 Religious warfare, 1400-1536; 7.2 Religious warfare and the Wars of Religion; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z
Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. Norman Housley examines the spectrum of conflicts waged in God's name in the period from the Later Crusades to the early Reformation, arguing that the religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries sprang from deeply rooted proclivities within European society. - ;Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this intelligent and readable study, the distinguished Crusade historian Norman Housley describes and analyses the principal expressions of holy war in the period from the Hussite w
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Europe -- Church history.
Europe -- History -- 1492-1648.
Europe -- History -- 15th century.
Europe -- History, Military.
Military art and science -- Europe -- History.
History - General
History & Archaeology