The European wars of religion an interdisciplinary reassessment of sources, interpretations, and myths
"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 region,confessional violence and holy war during the early modern period. B...
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Farnham, Surrey, England
Ashgate
2016
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Wolfgang Palaver, Harriet Rudolph and Dietmar Regensburger
- Religion and violence in the Hussite Wars / Pavel Soukup
- Religion, war and violence in the Swiss Confederation / Thomas Lau
- Were the French wars of religion really wars of religion? / Philip Benedict
- Religious wars in the Holy Roman Empire? : from the Schmalkaldic War to the Thirty Years War / Harriet Rudolph
- England's wars of religion : a reassessment / Charles W.A. Prior
- Justifying force in early modern doctrines on self-defence and resistance / Luise Schorn-Schütte
- Secularization of the holy : a reading of the "wars of religion" / William T. Cavanaugh
- The modern state or the myth of "political violence" / Paul Dumouchel
- The modern military-humanitarian hybrid state : a response to Paul Dumouchel / Bruce Ward
- Confessional wars and religious violence in Christianity from a theological viewpoint / Ralf Miggelbrink
- Religion and violence : the case of wars in former Yugoslavia / Janez Juhant
- The debate about the European wars of religion as a challenge to interdisciplinary cooperation / Wolfgang Palaver