Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536.(Book Review)

Church History | June 1, 2004| | Copyright

Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536. By Norman Housley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002. x + 238 pp. $55.00 cloth.

How refreshing to read a book in which the author assumes that the sources actually mean what they say! This study has little patience with historians who detect hidden motives in expressions of stated religious purposes for wars during 1400-1536. Nor does this book accept the view that sixteenth-century wars were the beginning of modern secular conflicts, with little of previous motivations for armed conflict. While not denying certain new ...

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