Yes, the reason people write like that is because they are showing off to other experts. This article was written for laymen to learn about a battle, and I bel

Yes, the reason people write like that is because they are showing off to other experts. This article was written for laymen to learn about a battle, and I believe you could state that simply as "developed a shared sense of humanity" The trouble with stating it clearly is that it's now easy to point out it wasn't a pervasive shift - 1/2 a century later there were millions of deaths in the 30 years war - showing a lack of common humanity across Protestant/Catholic lines, let alone Islam/Christianity.