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Lutherean Silliness Martin Luther Martin Luther is without a doubt one of the most important persons in the history of the Wester...

Freeing the Mind Part I The emergence of Religious Toleration in the West  Book Cover   One of the most important features ...

The Dutch Revolt Revolution the Long Way A Note on Origins Part I Section  of Painting Looting a Luggage Train by Sebastian Vranc...

True Faith The French Wars of Religion Part 1 - Origins Jean Calvin Little known today, at least among the non-residents of ...

Coercion Works Book Cover One of the most telling of popular myths regarding history is that history shows that force, coercion...

Out The Window I   Defenestration is one of those words that describe something you wouldn’t think as a word for it. Like for example a...

Reigning at the Vatican Lucrecia Borgia Lucrecia Borgia (1480-1519 C.E.) was the daughter of Rodrigo Borgia (1431-1503 C.E.) who reigned as...

The Crackup Books about the Thirty Years War in English are not exactly common which is why the arrival of the above book1 is an occasion fo...

Erasmus and Julius II Erasmus (Left) Julius II (Right) A work attributed to the great Renaissance Humanist and Theologian Erasmus of Rotter...

Tudor Government and Terror A Brief Note Henry VIII There is a tendency among some historians to try to justify brutal , authoritarian rul...