Table of Contents

1: Religious Warfare in the Late Middle Ages and Early Reformation
2: A Crucible of Religious Warfare: Bohemia during the Hussite Wars 1400-1437
3: The Christian Commonwealth of Europe 1437-1536
4: The Assembling of Authority: Scripture, Messianic Individuals, and Symbols
5: the Three Turks
6: The Critique of Religious War
7: Conclusion: Perspectives
Bibliography
Index

About the Author

Norman Housely is a Professor of History at the University of Leicester.

Reviews

`This is a stimulating even brilliant book that deserves careful reading and will surely influence future interpretations of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century religious wars. Highly recommended.'
Thomas Renna, Church History
`Review from other book by this author The author has devoted great care and a breathtaking range of scholarly reading to making what he has to say clear and accessible and his publishers have wisely connived at the growth of what was intended to be a shorter book. They have also allowed him the apparatus of maps and bibliography which adds so much to the usefulness of the book ... Thanks to his book it will be possible for his successors to set sail with
confidence that they will neither fall off the edge of the knowable world nor encounter any mythical beasts.'
French History
`magisterial study of the late medieval crusades ... Housley's study will undoubtedly fuel debate and further research into this much neglected area of history.'
History
`This book enlarges understanding of the crusades at many points, and it will surely long hold the field as the classic on its subject.'
Times Higher Education Supplement
`Covering a vast canvas and drawing upon an impressive corpus of up-to-date scholarship, The Later Crusades never degenerates into a dry narrative of projects and campaigns... he has produced a fine book that will remain the standard work, and the basis for further research, for many years ahead.''
Ecclesiastical History
`Housley, who is clearly steeped in his subject, brings to the work the necessary tools, precise prose, and nuanced thought. This is an extremely useful book . . . Those wishing a survey of this subject cannot do better.'
History