Alexander Gillespie is Professor of Law at the University of Waikato, New Zealand.

• I. Introduction 1. The Conversation on Sunday Afternoon 2. Utopia 3. Facts 4. Casus Belli in Practice 5. This Volume II. Crowns, Dynasty and Territory1. Introduction 2. The Hundred Years’ War 3. The Wars of the Roses 74. The Wars for the Expansion of France 5. The Italian Wars 6. Conclusion III. Religious Wars in Europe: The Beginning 1. Introduction 2. The Absolute Power of the Pope 3. The Hussite Wars 4. Albert II, Frederick III and Maximilian I 5. Martin Luther 6. The Peasants’ War 7. The Influence of Luther 8. War in Germany 9. The Peace of Augsburg 10. Conclusion IV. Religion and Power in England 1. Introduction 2. Henry VIII 3. Edward VI 4. Mary Tudor 5. Elizabeth I 6. James I/VI 7. Conclusion V. The Wars of Religion in France 1. Introduction 2. The Huguenots 3. Conclusion VI. The Rise of the Dutch Republic 1. Introduction 2. A Legacy of Autonomy 3. William of Orange4. The Act of Abjuration 5. Philip III and the Twelve Years’ Truce 6. Conclusion VII. The Culmination: The Thirty Years’ War 1. Introduction 2. The Irony 3. Rudolf II 4. The Rebellion in Bohemia 5. Frederick V 6. Containing the War 7. The Expanding War: Denmark 8. The Expanding War: Sweden9. The Expanding War: France 10. The Peace of Westphalia 11. Rethinking War: Crucé, Sully and Grotius 12. Conclusion VIII. The English Civil War 1. Introduction 2. Charles I 3. The First Civil War 4. The Second Civil War 5. Conclusion IX. Eastern Europe 1. Introduction 2. Poland and Lithuania 3. Russia 4. Conclusion X. The New World 1. Introduction 2. Precedents 3. The New World 4. The Requirement 5. England and the New World 6. The Colonies in North America 7. Slavery 8. Conclusion XI. The Muslim World 1. Introduction 2. Inter-Family Wars and Coups 3. Inter-Islam Wars: Sunni v Sunni 4. Inter-Islam Wars: Sunni v Shia5. Muslim and Christian Wars 6. Conclusion XII. Asia 1. Introduction 2. The Ming and Their Neighbours 3. The Imjin War 4. The Qing 5. Conclusion XIII. Conclusion