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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

`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

,. .Housely is uniquely qualified to discuss the subject of religious wars, ...he succeeds in demonstrating the continuity of ideas linking the crusades of the Middle Ages with the religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Religious Warfare in Europe is also valuable as a broad historiographical study... -- HISTORY: Reviews of New Books<br> What makes Religiious Warfare extraordinarily good and of intest to scholars and students alike in any field is, first and foremost, its uncompromising comparitive perspective. Housley's story ranges from much-neglected central Europe and Iberia to the Ottoman lands, Africa, the New World, and the core lands of western Europe. Housley shifts from case studies to thematic discussions, inviting the reader to examine his conclusions from a variety of perspectives. We must all be grateful indeed to Housley for writing such an intelligent, insightful, and moving book. It illuminates vividly and reflectively one of his eary quotations from Peter Partner: the violence men do, they seek to justify. Then, as is often done today, men justify violence by the preposterous claim that it is God's will. Speculum<br>

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

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