The Thirty Year War, fought over both religious and political issues, devastated Germany in the XVIIth century. At the beginning it was a religious conflict between the Protestant princes and...
In 16th-century Europe, a group of people criticised the Catholic Church – they were called Protestants – and created a different church, called the “Reformed” church. Hence the expression “Protestant...
Protestantism developed in France from 1517 onwards. The number of Protestants rapidly increased; many nobles converted and formed a powerful party. And the majority Catholicism felt challenged.