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Question 3: Was the religiously-framed warfare of the 16th and early 17th centuries avoidable, given the realities of that place and time?


After the first period of the separation between the Catholic and the Protestant Churches that took place peacefully, there came a period of ruthless fights between the two. The fight for supremacy between the two churches was translated into the fight for power between dynasties. France was the first to witness real civil wars between the subjects of the two churches, fighting to overthrow each other at the throne. The adherents of the new Protestant Church, the Huguenots in France, were a minority in number, but they held very important positions in matters of the state. The bloody night of St. Bartholomew is left in history as one of the most absurd and cruel mass slaughter started on religious grounds. In fact, religion was just a pretext beneath the real cause of the conflict between the most powerful dynasties in France, under the reign of Catherine de Medicis: the struggle for power. The fight became fierce and the combatants on both sides were regarding each other as deadly enemies. The conflict between the representatives of the two

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