An introduction to an age of conflict. Taking account of political, economic and social developments, the author examines the lines of division in late 16th-cen... » 

An introduction to an age of conflict. Taking account of political, economic and social developments, the author examines the lines of division in late 16th-century Europe: between a Protestant North and a Catholic South; between the rich economy of the West and the poverty of the agrarian East. «