Defenders of the Faith: Charles V, Suleyman the Magnificent, and the Battle for Europe, 1520-1536 - James Reston Jr. Audiobook
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In his Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, limned two epochal conflicts between Islam and Christendom. Here he examines the ultimate battle in that centuries-long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This drama was propelled by two astonishing young sovereigns: Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and Turkish sultan Suleyman the Magnificent. Though they represented two colliding worlds, they were remarkably similar. Each was a poet and cultured cosmopolitan; each was the most powerful man on his continent; each was called “Defender of the Faith”; and each faced strident religious rebellion in his domain. Charles was beset by the “heresy” of Martin Luther and his fervid adherents, even while tensions between him and the pope threatened to boil over, and the upstart French king Francis I harried Charles’s realm by land and sea. Suleyman was hardly more comfortable on his throne. He had earned his crown by avoiding the grim Ottoman tradition of royal fratricide. Shiites in the East were fighting off the Sunni Turks’ cruel repression of their “heresy.” The ferocity and skill of Suleyman’s Janissaries had expanded the Ottoman Empire to its greatest extent ever, but these slave soldiers became rebellious when foreign wars did not engage them.
With Europe newly hobbled and the Turks suffused with restless vigor, the stage was set for a drama that unfolded from Hungary to Rhodes and ultimately to Vienna itself, which both sides thought the Turks could win. If that happened, it was generally agreed that Europe would become Muslim as far west as the Rhine.
During these same years, Europe was roiled by constant internal tumult that saw, among other spectacles, the Diet of Worms, the Sack of Rome, and an actual wrestling match between the English and French monarchs in which Henry VIII’s pride was badly hurt. Would-could-this fractious continent be united to repulse a fearsome enemy
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This post has 3 comments with rating of 5/5
November 2nd, 2021
Scarily big hats & homoerotic Tudor wrestling.
Thx, rmoor.
November 3rd, 2021
I won’t deny their rabid faith got the juices flowing, but first & foremost all wars are resource wars - trade routes, crops, forests, mines, taxes & slaves, slaves, slaves on both sides.
My friend Fritz is one of those guys (it’s always guys) who is always blaming everything on religion including war. I have no problem with modest religion bashing, but I said Fritz, ‘have you ever heard of the 20th century?’
It’s faith, which is belief without proof, that’s the problem and faith seems to come preinstalled with pretty much all humans. More humans than ever have lost faith in their religion only to replace it with political faith or most interestingly, faith in an undefined higher power. When I press them - why? what? why? both the religious & undefiners say they ‘feel it’. I believe them.
January 23rd, 2022
@apnea We find the greatest amount of irreligiosity and atheism during the decline of empires. Faith is simply an energy, without the faith that your feet will carry you, that it will be worth walking, worth living, you’d simply be paralyzed, and that is what we observe also with people that don’t believe in something greater than life. 19 out of 20 countries with the highest suicide rates are atheist, Sri Lanka being the 20th and the exception. Countries such as Sweden that are most atheistic are also the ones abolishing themselves the most, constantly chastizing themselves over their supposedly horrible history, letting millions and millions of people storm across their border in an unprecedented mass immigration push, with the average atheist not having enough children to even continue society. There is nothing deadlier than a lack of faith, and we have yet to see a truly atheistic country, with Christian notions still being passed down in diminished form. Without faith, Europe would’ve been overrun by Islamic invaders, unable to unite beyond trivial tribal differences. Faith is a vehicle that has been used to summarize thousands and thousands of tribal conflicts into a much smaller number of larger conflicts. You might not like it, but this is what building civilization looks like. Without it, we go back to tribal and racial differences determining groups, we become animals again. It is only human to believe in something greater.
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