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. But the interpretation of the European wars of religion stil

Harriet Rudolph is Professor of Modern History (Early Modern Times) at the University of Regensburg, Germany. Wolfgang Palaver is Professor of Catholic Social Thought and Dean of the School of Catholic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. From 2007 to 2011 he was president of the ’Colloquium on Violence and Religion’. Dietmar Regensburger is Assistant Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria.