V.1. ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE "WARS OF RELIGION"

5.1. Growth & the "Wars of Religion"

WHEN ALL ASPECTS OF DAILY LIFE ARE SACRED,

CONFLICT IS TOO

France's 16th-century civil wars (in 1562-98) are said due to "fanaticism," a truism that skips their tangible cause.

Sixteenth-century engraving, private collection

Basic source: Jules Michelet's Renaissance an Reformation (1860's)

Topics

• Growth breaks loose

• Violence that has nothing to do with religion

• Massacres of Protestants are urban

• The traditional faith defends brakes on gain...

• The new faith shatters them

• In Spain, no civil war, no Protestants, no capitalists

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Growth breaks loose