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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792259503321

Autore

Housley Norman

Titolo

Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536 [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

0-19-156450-8

9786612365874

1-282-36587-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

940.2/1

940.21

Soggetti

Europe -- Church history

Europe -- History -- 15th century

Europe -- History, Military

Military art and science -- Europe -- History

Europe History 476-1492

Europe History 1492-1648

Europe History, Military

Europe Church history 600-1500

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 Ottomans 5.2 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;

Sommario/riassunto

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