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A new look at the French wars of religion, designed for undergraduate students and general readers.
Synopsis
This book is the first comprehensive study of the French wars of religion to appear for more than twenty years. Designed specifically for undergraduate students, it assumes no background knowledge of either French history or the Reformation, and includes features to aid the student reader such as maps, a chronology, brief biographies, and suggestions for further reading.
Synopsis
This book is an accessible and comprehensive study of the French wars of religion. Drawing on the latest scholarship of a generation of social historians of the Reformation, the author presents a new analysis of this long conflict. He argues that religious tension between Catholics and Protestants played a crucial role in the wars and was just as important to the outcome as the political aspirations of the aristocratic factions at court or any underlying socio-economic tensions. Designed specifically for undergraduate students, this textbook assumes no background knowledge of either French history or the Reformation.
Synopsis
This is the second edition of Mack P. Holt's comprehensive study of the French wars of religion, designed for undergraduate students. The author presents a new analysis which goes beyond the partisan politics of noble factions and socio-economic tensions of early modern society. He argues that this long conflict was fomented by religious tensions among the population at large. While politics and socio-economic tensions were doubtlessly important, this book focuses on the social history of religion. The author has updated the text and entirely re-written the 'Suggestions for further reading'
Synopsis
This is the second edition of a comprehensive study of the French wars of religion.
About the Author
Mack P. Holt is Professor of History at the George Mason University. His previous publications include The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle during the Wars of Religion (1986) and Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648 (2002, ed.).
Table of Contents
Introduction; Chronological table of events; 1. Prologue: Gallicanism and reform in the sixteenth century; 2. 'The beginning of a tragedy': the early wars of religion, 1562-1570; 3. Popular disorder and religious tensions: the making of a massacre, 1570-1574; 4. The rhetoric of resistance: the unmaking of the body politic, 1574-1584; 5. Godly warriors: the crisis of the league, 1584-1593; 6. Henry IV and the edict of Nantes: the remaking of Gallicanism; 7. Epilogue: the last war of religion, 1610-1629; 8. Conclusions: economic impact, social change and absolutism; Short biographies; Genealogical charts; Suggestions for further reading.