Christendom Destroyed Europe 1517-1648 (Penguin History of Europe)

774 Pages·2014·26.41 MB·English

by  Mark Greengrass

THE PENGUIN HISTORY OF EUROPE
General Editor: David Cannadine
I: SIMON PRICE AND PETER THONEMANN
The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine
II: CHRIS WICKHAM The Inheritance of Rome:
A History of Europe from 400 to 1000*
III: WILLIAM JORDAN: Europe in the High Middle Ages*
IV: ANTHONY GRAFTON Renaissance Europe
V: MARK GREENGRASS Christendom Destroyed:
The History of Europe, 1517–1648*
VI: TIM BLANNING The Pursuit of Glory: Europe 1648–1815*
VII: RICHARD J. EVANS The Pursuit of Power: Europe 1815–1914
VIII: IAN KERSHAW To Hell and Back: Europe in the Twentieth Century
*already published

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Greengrass, Mark, 1949– Christendom destroyed :
Europe 1517–1648 / Mark Greengrass.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-69817625-6
1. Europe—History—1517–1648. 2. Europe, Western—Civilization. 3. Christianity—Europe, Western. 4.
Reformation—Europe, Western. 5. Church and state—Europe, Western. 6. Social change—Europe,
Western. I. Title.
D231.G74 2014
940.2'3—dc23
2014007174
First published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd.
Illustration credits appear on pages x–xiii.
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Contents
The Penguin History of Europe
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
List of Maps
List of Illustrations
List of Genealogies
Maps
The Spread of the Protestant Reformation in Europe
Habsburg Europe in the Later Sixteenth Century
The Thirty Years War in German Lands
Europe’s Frontiers in 1648
Introduction
1. The Fall of Western Christendom
From the ‘Silver Age’ to the ‘Iron Century’
2. Human Replenishment
3. Urban and Rural Worlds
4. Treasure and Transaction
5. Noble Pursuits
Grasping the World
6. Europe in the World
7. Earth and Heavens Observed
8. Being in Touch
Christendom Afflicted
9. Politics and Empire in the Age of Charles V
The Jagiellon Dynasty in the Sixteenth Century
The Habsburg Dynastic Sphere of Influence in the Era of Charles V
The Succession to the French Crown in the Sixteenth Century
10. Schism
11. Reaction, Repression, Reform
Christian Commonwealths in Contention
12. Conflicts in the Name of God
Pretenders to the Portuguese Crown in 1580
13. Living with Religious Divisions
The Austrian Habsburg Dynastic Inheritance
14. Churches and the World
15. The Waning of Crusade
Christian States in Disarray
16. The Business of States
17. States in Confrontation
18. War at Large
19. Times of Troubles to the East and West
Conclusion: Europe’s Paroxysm
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Further Reading
Index
For Emily
List of Maps
1. The Spread of the Protestant Reformation in Europe, c. 1570
2. Habsburg Europe in the Later Sixteenth Century
3. The Thirty Years War in German Lands
4. Europe’s Frontiers in 1648
List of Illustrations
1. Lucas Cranach the Elder, The Close of the Silver Age, c. 1530. National
Gallery, London (photograph: Scala, Florence)
2. Johannes Bucius Aenicola, ‘Europe as a Queen’, illustration from
Sebastian Münster, Cosmographia, 1570
3. Thomas Cockson, The Revells of Christendome, c. 1609 (photograph:
private collection/The Bridgeman Art Library)
4. Annibale Carracci, The Bean Eater, c. 1580/90. Galleria Colonna,
Rome (photograph: De Agostini/Bridgeman Art Library)
5. Isaac Claesz Swan, Spinning and Weaving Wool, c. 1600. Stedelijk
Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden (photograph: akg-images/Erich Lessing)
6. Georg Hoefnagel, map showing Sankt Pölten, Lower Austria,
illustration from Braun and Hogenberg, Civitates Orbis Terrarum,
1618
7. Hans von Hemssen, The Audience Chamber of the Rathaus at Lübeck,
1625. St Annen-Museum, Lübeck (copyright © St Annen-
Museum/Fotoarchiv der Hansestadt Lübeck)
8. Théodore de Bry after Jacque Le Moyne, illustration showing llamas
carrying silver from the mines of Potosí, from Americae, 1602
(photograph: Getty Images)
9. Théodore de Bry after Jacque Le Moyne, illustration showing a scene
of cannibalism, from Americae, 1592. Service Historique de la Marine,
Vincennes (photograph: Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library)
10. Japanese School, detail showing the unloading of merchandise, from a
Namban Byobu screen depicting the arrival of the Portuguese in Japan,
1594–1618. Museu Nacional de Soares dos Reis, Porto (photograph:
Giraudon/The Bridgeman Art Library)
11. Bernardino de Sahagún, illustration of a domestic pagan ritual with the
devil, from Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España, sixteenth
century. Facsimile in the Biblioteca Manuel Gamio Inah Museo del
Templo Mayor, Mexico City (photograph: De Agostini Picture
Library/The Bridgeman Art Library)
12. Bonaventura Peeters the Elder, The Port of Archangel, 1644 (copyright
© National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London)
13. Plates 113 and 136 from Matthäus Schwarz, The Book of Clothes (Die
Schwarzschen Trachtenbücher), sixteenth century. Herzog Anton
Ulrich-Museum Braunschweig, Kunstmuseum des Landes
Niedersachsen (photographs: Museumsfotograf)
14. Heinrich Vogtherr the Elder, Anatomy, or, a Faithful Reproduction of
the Body of a Female, 1544. Boston Medical Library in the Francis A.
Countway Library of Medicine (ff QM33.A16)
15. Frontispiece from Jan van der Straet (Stradanus), Nova Reperta, c.
1599–1603 (photograph: Namur Archive, London/Scala, Florence)
16. Johannes Hevelius, ‘Observations of Sunspots, May 1644’, illustration
from Selenographia, 1647 (photograph: Universal History
Archive/UIG/The Bridgeman Art Library)
17. Lavinia Fontana, Antonietta Gonzales, c. 1583. Musee du Château,
Blois (photograph: Bonhams, London/The Bridgeman Art Library)
18. Adriaen van Stalbemt, The Sciences and the Arts, early seventeenth
century. Museu Nacional del Prado, Madrid (photograph: Scala,
Florence/BPK, Bildagentur für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte, Berlin)
19. Lucas Cranach the Elder, Martin Luther and his wife Catherine von
Bora, 1529. Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi (photograph: Scala,
Florence, courtesy of the Ministero Beni e Att. Culturali)
20. Anon, The Pope and the Devil, c. 1600. Museum Caharijneconvent,
Utrecht (photograph: akg-images)
21. Klaus Hottinger and helpers take down the Crucifix at Stadelhofen,
illustration from Heinrich Bullinger, Reformationsgeschichte, 1605–6.
Zentralbibliothek, Zürich (MS B 316 fol 99r)
22. The Massacre of Sens, 12th April 1562, print published by Jean
Perissin and Jacques Tortorel, 1570. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris