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Europe Divided, 1559-1598

John Huxtable Elliott

出版	Harper & Row, 1969
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Q6lmAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"The lines of division across Europe in the later sixteenth century have frozen hard: between a Protestant North and a Catholic South; between the rich, expanding economy of the west and the harsh poverty of the agrarian East. It was the period that saw the birth of the Dutch Republic, the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the western repulse of the Ottoman Empire. In politics it admitted, at last and reluctantly, a measure of religious toleration. Looming over the period was the vast power of Habsburg Spain, shadowed by the personality of Philip. It was the Europe of a revived papacy and an authoritarian Calvinism, of William the Silent and the Duke of Alba, of Queen Elizabeth and Catherine de Medici, of Henry IV and Montaigne. The strong narrative framework enhances the vivid portraits of these and other leading figures and provides the clearest and most interesting of introductions to this age of movement and conflict". --Publisher.