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Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536 (Paperback)
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Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536 (Paperback)
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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 wars to the
first generation of the Reformation. The context was one of both
challenge and expansion. The Ottoman Turks posed an unprecedented
external threat to the "Christian republic," while doctrinal
dissent, constant warfare between states, and rebellion eroded it
from within.
Professor Housley shows how in these circumstances the propensity
to sanctify warfare took radically different forms. At times
warfare between national communities was shaped by convictions of
'sacred patriotism', either in defending God-given native land or
in the pursuit of messianic programs abroad. Insurrectionary
activity, especially when driven by apocalyptic expectations, was a
second important type of religious war. In the 1420s and early
1430s the Hussites waged war successfully in defense of what they
believed to be "God's Law." And some frontier communities depicted
their struggle against non-believers as religious war by reference
to crusading ideas and habits of thought. Professor Housley
pinpoints what these conflicts had in common in the ways the
combatants perceived their own role, their demonization of their
opponents, and the ongoing critique of religious war in all its
forms.
This is a major contribution to both Crusade history and the study
of the Wars of Religion of the early modern period. Professor
Housley explores the interaction between Crusade and religious war
in the broader sense, and argues that the religious violence of
thesixteenth and seventeenth centuries was organic, in the sense
that it sprang from deeply rooted proclivities within European
society.
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