IR 212 Lecture 2: Lecture 2
Document Summary
State formation and the birth of the modern european states-system. Cardinal de richelieu (all about power) versus ferdinand ii (all about religion): Ferdinand (the holy roman emperor) saw europe as true believers threatened by heretics. The middle ages thought about european governance as the organization of the believers (christian god) in church medieval christendom breaks down. 1500-1600"s the splintering of christendom into a lot of different christian groupings which creates a problem for governance if governance is an organization of christendom then when it breaks down there creates issues. Catholic, lutheran, calvinist, anglican, bohemian and moravian brethren, anabaptist, Eastern orthodox, islamic = types of religion in europe. Abandon the true approach to the faith medieval approach is. True believer"s vs heretics, believed he was going to win because god was on his side. Unless he can smite the heretics and force them to become roman catholics there is no way for him to dictate world order.
