1st Edition

Franciscans and Scotists on War John Duns Scotus’s Theology, Anti-Judaism, and Holy War in Early Modernity

Edited By Ian Campbell, Todd Rester Copyright 2025
276 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

276 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Franciscan friars were everywhere in the early modern Catholic world, a world that stretched from the Americas, through Western and Central Europe, to the Middle East and Asia. This global brotherhood was as deeply entangled in the great religious wars that convulsed Europe during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries as it was in the Spanish and Portuguese empires. While the political and... Read more

Part 1  Introduction  Editorial Note  Part 2  1. John Duns Scotus (1265/66–1308), the Jewish Family and the Power of the Prince  2. John Mair (c. 1467–1550), Anti-Judaism and Old Testament War  3. Alfonso de Castro (1495–1558) and the Emperor Charles V’s War on Heresy  4. Juan Focher (1497–1572), Anti-Judaism and War in New Spain  5. John Punch (1599/1604–1661), the Stuart Monarchy, and Evangelisation by War

Biography

Ian Campbell is Reader in Early Modern Irish History at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He is the author of Renaissance Humanism and Ethnicity before Race: The Irish and the English in the Seventeenth Century (2013), and has edited, with Floris Verhaart, Protestant Politics Beyond Calvin: Reformed Theologians on War in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2022).

Todd Rester is Associate Professor of Church History at Westminster Theological Seminary, US. He has edited, with Stephen M. Coleman, Faith in the Time of Plague (2021), a collection of Protestant and Reformed writings on epidemics. He has translated many early modern Reformed theological works, including (with Andrew McGinnis) Franciscus Junius’s Mosaic Polity (2015), and (with Joel R. Beeke) Petrus van Mastrich’s Theoretical-Practical Theology (5 vols, 2018–2025).