Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. In this intelligent and readable study, the distinguished Crusade historian Norman Housley describes and analyses the principal expressions of holy war in the period from the Hussite wars
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 I