Spain and the Protestant Reformation: The Spanish Inquisition and the War for Europe

ISBN-13: 9781032054735 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 216 str.

Wayne H. Bowen

Opis

This book argues that the Protestant Reformation was an existential threat to the Catholic Habsburg monarchy of the sixteenth century and the greatest danger to its political and religious authority in Europe and the world.

Spis treści

Introduction / Spain and the World in 1516 / The Reformation in Spain, 1517-1556 / Charles V, Martin Luther, and the Empire / Perfidious Albion / Philip II and the Spanish Inquisition / French, Ottomans, and Protestants / The War in Flanders / Conclusion: Philip II - The Triumphant Failure / Bibliography

O autorze

Wayne H. Bowen is the Director of Interdisciplinary Studies in the College of Undergraduate Studies and a Professor in Department of History, University of Central Florida, US.