The Chief Causes Of The Wars Of Religion In Western Europe

Name: Collins Kato

ID No. : 13046977

Course: Politics and International Relations

Module: History

Module No: HI4061

Question:

The chief causes of the ‘wars of religion’ in western Europe were political rather than spiritual.’ Discuss with reference to either the French Wars of Religion or the Dutch Revolt.

Introduction

Religious wars in France were caused by the unfairly trend between the poor and the elites in France. The political instability and unfairness triggered the hate of some rich Huguenots by the furious Catholics who took matters in their own hands filling the vacuum of already weakened political society, and instead use extreme spiritual tactics to fill the void of political and economic show down of what will then

By doing so, Henry IV, created a political environment with in the unchartered religious territories hence inviting fierce debate that would contribute primarily to a ‘series of religious wars’. Even though “pre-industrial crowd violence has been drawn primarily from the study of grain and bread riots, tax riots, craft violence, and certain kinds of peasant revolts”, (Davis, 1973) Religious riots were taken into account as a massacre were politics played key role and superiority of which religion is in control and never liked dominancy even though Catholics were so many they felt threatened by the rise of rich Huguenots and the Bourbon Influential

Hanging, burning of livestock and farm lands which were put to waste throughout the religious wars of France in the 16th Century that began with some powerful Nobles, and elite statesmen who wanted a different type of religion spread throughout the everyday person, in fear of Catholics being dominated by the Huguenots and Bourbons, triggered the sanctity use of religious cleansing yet vacuuming the political and superior laws that only the king supposed to