The European Wars Of Religion

Author : Wolfgang Palaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317032764
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Wars of Religion written by Wolfgang Palaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years religion has resurfaced amongst academics, in many ways replacing class as the key to understanding Europe's historical development. This has resulted in an explosion of studies revisiting issues of religious change, confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period. But the interpretation of the European wars of religion still remains largely defined by national boundaries, tied to specific processes of state building as well as nation building. In order to more thoroughly interrogate these concepts and assumptions, this volume focusses on terms repeatedly used and misused in public debates such as "religious violence" and "holy warfare" within the context of military conflicts commonly labelled "religious wars". The chapters not only focus on the role of religion, but also on the emerging state as a driver of the escalation of violence in the so-called age of religious war. By using different methodological and theoretical approaches historians, philosophers, and theologians engage in an interdisciplinary debate that contributes to a better understanding of the religio-political situation of early modern Europe and the interpretation of violent conflicts interpreted as religious conflicts today. By adopting a multi-disciplinary approach, new and innovative perspectives are opened up that question if in fact religion was a primary driving force behind these conflicts.

Author : Arnaud Blin
Publisher : University of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520286634
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book War and Religion written by Arnaud Blin and published by University of California Press. This book was released on 2019-03-19 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The resurgence of violent terrorist organizations claiming to act in the name of God has rekindled dramatic public debate about the connection between violence and religion and its history. Offering a panoramic view of the tangled history of war and religion throughout Europe and the Mediterranean, War and Religion takes a hard look at the tumultuous history of war in its relationship to religion. Arnaud Blin examines how this relationship began through the concurrent emergence of the Mediterranean empires and the great monotheistic faiths. Moving through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and into the modern era, Blin concludes with why the link between violence and religion endures. For each time period, Blin shows how religion not only fueled a great number of conflicts but also defined the manner in which wars were conducted and fought.

Author : Adolphus Ward
Publisher : Perennial Press
ISBN 13 : 1531263186
Total Pages : 828 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wars of Religion in Europe written by Adolphus Ward and published by Perennial Press. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 828 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE present volume, as its title imports, relates a complicated series of conflicts of which the origin or the pretext has for the most part to be sought in the great religious schism of Christianity. But the cause of the restoration of Catholic unity in the West was, in the minds of both the supporters and the opponents of that cause, inextricably interwoven with the purposes of dynastic ambition, and powerfully affected by influences traceable to the rapid advance of the monarchical principle and to the gradual growth of the conception of the modern national State. Although in graver peril than ever before from the persistent advance of the Ottoman Power, Europe no longer finds a real unifying force in either Papacy or Empire. The spiritual ardor of the Catholic Reaction, which might have served to strengthen the resistance to the general enemy of Christendom, is expended largely on internecine conflicts. It allies itself with the settled resolution of Philip of Spain to control the destinies of Western Europe; and thus there is not a phase of the religious and political struggle here described which remains unconnected with the rest. The Religious Wars of France, with an account of which this volume opens, furnish the most complete instance of the constant intersection of native and foreign influences; but it is illustrated by almost every portion of the narrative. Since, therefore, the story of no European country or group of countries in this troubled period admits of being told as detached from the contemporary history of its neighbors, allies, or adversaries, the same series of events must necessarily appear more than once in these pages as forming an organic part of the history of several countries, but treated in each case from a distinct point of view...

Author : Wayne P. Te Brake
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316839478
Total Pages : 738 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe written by Wayne P. Te Brake and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 738 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious War and Religious Peace in Early Modern Europe presents a novel account of the origins of religious pluralism in Europe. Combining comparative historical analysis with contentious political analysis, it surveys six clusters of increasingly destructive religious wars between 1529 and 1651, analyzes the diverse settlements that brought these wars to an end, and describes the complex religious peace that emerged from two centuries of experimentation in accommodating religious differences. Rejecting the older authoritarian interpretations of the age of religious wars, the author uses traditional documentary sources as well as photographic evidence to show how a broad range Europeans - from authoritative elites to a colorful array of religious 'dissenters' - replaced the cultural 'unity and purity' of late-medieval Christendom with a variable and durable pattern of religious diversity, deeply embedded in political, legal, and cultural institutions.

Author : Mark Konnert
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 9781442600041
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Early Modern Europe written by Mark Konnert and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2008-08-23 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A tour de force." - Vladimir Steffel, Ohio State University

Author : Wolfgang Palaver
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781472427113
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The European Wars of Religion written by Wolfgang Palaver and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 7 Secularization of the Holy: A Reading of the 'Wars of Religion' -- 8 The Modern State or the Myth of 'Political Violence' -- 9 The Modern Military-Humanitarian Hybrid State: A Response to Paul Dumouchel -- 10 Confessional Wars and Religious Violence in Christianity from a Theological Viewpoint -- 11 Religion and Violence: The Case of Wars in the Former Yugoslavia -- 12 The Debate About the European Wars of Religion as a Challenge to Interdisciplinary Cooperation -- Index

Author : Robert Freeman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780991409624
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book European Wars of Religion written by Robert Freeman and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late 1500s, Europe fell into civil war. It was an after-effect of the Protestant Reformation, pitting Protestants against Catholics. The wars consumed the continent for 100 years. They accelerated Europe's evolution from its medieval past into a proto-modern political world. This book examines these Wars -- The Dutch Revolt, the French Wars of Religion, and the Thirty Years War -- and how they helped birth the modern world.

Author : Norman Housley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780198208112
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536 written by Norman Housley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-08-08 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this study, 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.

Author : Mack P. Holt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521358736
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 written by Mack P. Holt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995-10-19 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new look at the French wars of religion, designed for undergraduate students and general readers.

Author : R. J. Knecht
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317862317
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The French Wars of Religion 1559-1598 written by R. J. Knecht and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the second half of the sixteenth century, France was racked by religious civil wars and peace was only restored when Henry of Navarre finally converted to Catholicism, deciding – in his immortal phrase – that 'Paris is worth a mass'. In this lucid introduction to a complex period in French history, Robert Knecht: Explains the evangelical and Lutheran origins of the Huguenot Church in France Challenges simplistic interpretations of the religious conflict as purely a cloak for political rebellion Provides concise analysis of the wars themselves and the ferment of political ideas which they generated Evaluates the extent of France’s recovery under Henry IV This third edition has been updated throughout to take account of the latest scholarship, particularly on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew and the reign of Henry III when the monarchy almost succumbed to the challenge posed by the Catholic League. There is a new colour plate section and the main text is supported by a full glossary of terms, maps and three detailed genealogical tables, as well as a carefully chosen selection of original documents. Each book in the Seminar Studies in History series provides a concise and reliable introduction to complex events and debates. Written by acknowledged experts and supported by extracts from historical Documents, a Chronology, Glossary, Who’s Who of key figures and Guide to Further Reading, Seminar Studies in History are the essential guides to understanding a topic.