Re:Under a Spell – The Armistice at 100
by dragonwriter on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @12:37PM
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> A lot of wars are fought over ideological reasons: Crussades because the Cristians hated Muslims,
Well, I guess in part, in that Eastern Christians hated being conquered by Muslims, and so called out for help. On the Catholic side, though, it was more that the nobility has a whole bunch of second sons without acceptable prospects (yay primogeniture), whose skills were primarily military, so really any pretext to get them fighting a war far from home was welcome, and opportunity for conquest that wasn't at the expense of close family was a plus.
> lots of medieval European wars because Catholics and Protestants hated each other
Protestantism didn't even exist until the very end of the medieval period even by the broadest interpretation of “medieval”; the Catholic/Protestant Wars of Religion were in (and after) the Renaissance.
There were lots of reasons (mostly materialistic) for medieval wars, the Catholic/Protestant dispute really wasn't among them.
> the Napoleonic wars because monarchists hated republicans, etc.
France v. Everyone else predated th revolution (one of the charges against the King was that he was playing for the wrong side in that pre-existing conflict.)
And Napoleon I, Emporer of the French, King of Italy, etc., wasn't exactly a Republican.
Well, I guess in part, in that Eastern Christians hated being conquered by Muslims, and so called out for help. On the Catholic side, though, it was more that the nobility has a whole bunch of second sons without acceptable prospects (yay primogeniture), whose skills were primarily military, so really any pretext to get them fighting a war far from home was welcome, and opportunity for conquest that wasn't at the expense of close family was a plus.
> lots of medieval European wars because Catholics and Protestants hated each other
Protestantism didn't even exist until the very end of the medieval period even by the broadest interpretation of “medieval”; the Catholic/Protestant Wars of Religion were in (and after) the Renaissance.
There were lots of reasons (mostly materialistic) for medieval wars, the Catholic/Protestant dispute really wasn't among them.
> the Napoleonic wars because monarchists hated republicans, etc.
France v. Everyone else predated th revolution (one of the charges against the King was that he was playing for the wrong side in that pre-existing conflict.)
And Napoleon I, Emporer of the French, King of Italy, etc., wasn't exactly a Republican.