Religious Warfare in Europe 1400-1536

by Norman Housley

Book Overview

Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this intelligent and readable new study, the distinguished Crusade historian 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. The context was one of both challenge and expansion. The Ottoman Turks posed an unprecedented external threat to the 'Christian republic', while doctrinal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199552282
• ISBN13: 9780199552283
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"