Religious Warfarein Europe,1400–1536
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loginConsidering its modest length, this book has taken a disconcertinglylong time to write. The idea for it came to me while I was finishing my general ac-count of crusading in the late Middle Ages, The Later Crusades, 1274–1580:From Lyons to Alcazar(1992). What gave the project focus and direction, how-ever, was my participation in two research groups in the 1990s: first, my mem-bership of Philippe Contamine’s team working on the volume on inter-statewarfare and competition for the European Science Foundation programme ‘TheOrigins of the Modern State in Europe’, and secondly, my participation in PeterSchäfer’s seminar on Messianism at the Institute for Advanced Study in Prince-ton in 1996. The intellectual stimulus offered by both groups proved invaluable;more generally, the months I was able to spend at the Institute in Princeton weretremendously useful because of the interdisciplinary contacts on which the In-stitute, quite rightly, prides itself. No less important have been the ideas I haveencountered and tried out over the years at Jonathan Riley-Smith’s Crusadesseminar in Cambridge and London, at meetings in Richard Bonney’s Centre forthe History of Religious and Political Pluralism in Leicester, and at the SummerMeeting of the Ecclesiastical History Society at Warwick in 1998. Chapter 5inparticular benefited from outings at the Riley-Smith Crusades seminar, at theseminar on Medieval and Early Modern Warfare convened by the Departmentof War Studies at King’s College London, and the 19th International Congressof Historical Studies which met at Oslo in August 2000.
