Europe after the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter Reform

atomic number 63 after the Protestant Reformation and the Catholic Counter ReformationThe plosive immediately following the Protestant reformation and the Catholic counter reformation, was wide of encroach and war. The entire continent of Europe and all of its classes of society were touch by the destruction and flaring tempers of the period. In the Netherlands, the Protestants and the Catholics were at eachothers throats. In France it was the Guise family versus the Bourbons. In Bohemia, the spiritual and political structures maked total havoc for all over thirty classs and in England, the Presbyterians thought that the English Anglican perform too closely resembled the Roman Catholic Church. Religion was the study cause of the widespread turmoil that took place throughout Europe between 1560 and 1660. one and only(a) example of a battle in Europe that was caused by religious conflict took place in the Netherlands, between the Dutch citizens and their ruler Phillip II of Spain. When he tried to gain control of the catholic church there, the Dutch rebelled. The Protestants began to assault the Catholics, destroy their churches, and revolt against Phillip and his strict Catholic codes in 1572. The conflict ended in 1579 with a twelve year truce, when seven of the xvii provinces united nether Calvinism and William of Orange, and formed the United Provinces. The remaining ten remained under the rule of Spain. Another example of religious turmoil was the thirty-six year civil war in France, where the Huguenots were increasing in number contempt the power of their enemies, the Catholics. The French Catholics, led by the noble family, Guise, faced pip with the leading family of the Huguenots, the Bourbons. The feuds which separate... ...h the freedom to choose religion), and the Presbyterians (who wanted a strict Calvinist system controlled by a strong central power). The Independents dominated the war with their New Model Army, and became an unstoppable force in England. They were led by the influential and militant Oliver Cromwell (whose nickname became Lord Protector)of the House of Commons, and captured Charles, outback(a) the House of Lords and the Presbyterians from Parliament, and executed the holy anointed.Although politics did play a study role in the conflicts thatoccurred in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries it was religion which was the major cause of the wars and devastation that occurred in this time period, and many times throughout history weather before or after the seventeenth century.BibliographyThe westward ExperienceChambers. pg505-535. 1997