• Why did Europeans begin to amass overseas empires during the sixteenth century, and what effects did this experience have on both the Europeans and conquered peoples? • What role did religion play in the European wars of the sixteenth century and the Thirty Years’ War of the seventeenth century? • How did the religious policy, the foreign policy, and the governments of Philip II of Spain and ...

Christianity in late medieval Europe, and a more integrated intellectual view of medieval physicians. Readers are warned against considering the case of Arnau as unique and exhausting every possible relationship between medicine and religion. Nor should this historical exploration be restricted to medicine, for a general change in attitude towards nature involved every intellectual area in late...

Abstract Against the background of successful right-wing populist movements in recent years, a question arises as to whether democratic political culture remains stable Europe’s democracies. The EVS 2017 confirms that high level legitimacy is still attached democracy, but there are differences support for current system. In Eastern Europe, we find strong openness alternative anti-democratic sys...