The Age of Religious Wars, 1559-1689
Author: Richard S. Dunn
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780297004219
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Author: Richard S. Dunn
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 244
ISBN-13: 9780297004219
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard S. Dunn
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Published: 1979
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9780393056945
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven Ozment
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2020-08-25
Total Pages: 481
ISBN-13: 0300256183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCelebrating the fortieth anniversary of this seminal book, this new edition includes an illuminating foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittges The seeds of the swift and sweeping religious movement that reshaped European thought in the 1500s were sown in the late Middle Ages. In this book, Steven Ozment traces the growth and dissemination of dissenting intellectual trends through three centuries to their explosive burgeoning in the Reformations—both Protestant and Catholic—of the sixteenth century. He elucidates with great clarity the complex philosophical and theological issues that inspired antagonistic schools, traditions, and movements from Aquinas to Calvin. This masterly synthesis of the intellectual and religious history of the period illuminates the impact of late medieval ideas on early modern society. With a new foreword by Carlos Eire and Ronald K. Rittgers, this modern classic is ripe for rediscovery by a new generation of students and scholars.
Author: Rudolf Vierhaus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1988
Total Pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780521339360
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReconstructs the structures that marked the history of Germany from the Thirty Years' War to the end of the Seven Years' War.
Author: Wolfgang Palaver
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-12-05
Total Pages: 410
ISBN-13: 1317032764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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: Sheri Berman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 561
ISBN-13: 0199373191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemocracy and Dictatorship in Europe examines the development of various political regimes in Europe from the ancien regime up through the present day. It analyzes why democracy flourishes at some times and in some places but not others and draws lessons from European history that can help us better understand the political situation the world finds itself in today.
Author: Nicholas Goodrick-Clarke
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2008-10-14
Total Pages: 297
ISBN-13: 0195320999
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis introduction to the Western esoteric traditions offers a concise overview of their historical development. The author explores these traditions, from their roots in Hermeticism, Neo-Platonism, and Gnosticism in the early Christian era up to their reverberations in modern day's scientific paradigms.
Author: Nestor Rodriguez
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-01-01
Total Pages: 220
ISBN-13: 3031220676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the role of capital and labor migration in the expansion of the capitalist world-system. It presents comprehensive case studies on various historical periods of hegemony recognized by world-system theory: the Dutch hegemony (1625-1675), British hegemony (1815-1873), and US hegemony (1945-1970). Moreover, the book identifies an earlier period of economic dominance in Western Europe when merchant-bankers from Florence dominated the regional wool trade in the early thirteenth century. In these four intervals of dominance, i.e., from the medieval period to the late twentieth century, capital and labor migration formed the basis of capitalist development in the hegemonic core states as well as in peripheral regions under their economic and political influence. In turn, the book analyzes the migration patterns associated with the rise of hegemony from the perspectives of class relations between employers and workers, technological advances at the workplace, economic cycles, and state policies on labor migration. It concludes with a projection that heightened migration will continue to characterize the capitalist world system, especially as many poor and displaced populations in peripheral regions resort to migration for survival. Accordingly, it appeals to scholars in the fields of politics, sociology, history, anthropology, and economics who are interested in globalization and world-system analysis.
Author: Daniel H. Nexon
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2009-04-20
Total Pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780691137933
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLooks at the pivotal events of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries - including the Schmalkaldic War, the Dutch Revolt, and the Thirty Years' War. This book argues that early modern 'composite' political communities had more in common with empires than with modern states.
Author: Thomas J. Boynton
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2011-03
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 1456851268
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefrocking the Devil/Theology of Fear is a brief history of the last 2,500 years of monotheism using the actual words of the men who claimed to know the devilfigure most intimately. From Peter to Constantine to Martin Luther to our present day theologians, these men and hundreds more included in this book supported the early Church fathers' arguments for the inclusion of Satan into Christian polemics. A dualism appeared in the story of Jesus immediately after his crucifixion. Instead of tirelessly promoting the Christian message of "love thy neighbor as thyself" a new spiritual equation of hate, torture and murder entered the theological landscape. Defrocking the Devil is an attempt to puncture the myths surrounding the words: evil, devil and hell. Two thousand years after the birth of Christianity and fourteen hundred years after the start of Islam, hundreds of millions of people currently living on this planet are in real fear of one day ending up down in the devil's lair. How did Christian belief in Jesus become conditional upon the existence of fictional beings and wicked subterranean places? Defrocking the Devil seeks to illuminate the darkness and empower all people of faith to move beyond theologies that advocate violence into the spiritual equation. There have been many books written about this dark side of Western theology, but few historians do much more than recount its bloody genocidal history. Defrocking the Devil actively seeks to tear down such religious dogmas by using the very words of those who extolled such a hurtful, anti- Christian philosophy.