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Europe Divided: 1559 - 1598

Europe Divided: 1559 - 1598

Elliott, John Huxtable
Elliott, Digby Ed

Hardcover

Series: Blackwell Classic Histories of Europe

General European HistoryGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0631217797
ISBN13: 9780631217794
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: May 15 2000
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.36
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Europe Divided is a fascinating and wide-ranging introduction to a complex age of movement and conflict. Professor Elliott's strong narrative takes account of political, economic and social developments and provides vivid portraits of the leading personalities of the era.

The book examines the hard lines of division in late sixteenth-century Europe: between a Protestant North and a Catholic South; between the rich, expanding economy of the West and the harsh poverty of the agrarian East. It was the period that saw the birth of the Dutch Republic; the defeat of the Spanish Armada; the western repulse of the Ottoman Empire; the revival of the papacy and an authoritarian Calvinism. It was also an era of strong political personalities, of Philip II and a powerful Habsburg Spain, of Queen Elizabeth and Catherine de Medici, of Henry IV and Montaigne.

Throughout the text, Professor Elliott has been concerned to reveal the complex interaction of events in different parts of the continent, rather than examining regions in isolation. The book therefore conveys the feeling of contemporaries of the era - that they were involved in a great European drama.

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