V.3. ECONOMIC GROWTH AND THE "WARS OF RELIGION"

5.3.GROWTH & "WARS OF RELIGION"

WHEN ALL ASPECTS OF DAILY LIFE ARE SACRED,

CONFLICT IS TOO

France's 16th-century civil wars are said due to "fanaticism," a truism that skips their underlying cause.

(In 1562-98)

                  Sixteenth-century engraving, private collection

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

In brief

• Violence that has nothing to do with religion

• The "season" of Protestant massacre

• Catholic communities where people intertwine 

• The traditional faith defends brakes on gain...

• The new faith shatters them

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5.3.1. 

Violence that has nothing to do with religion