The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre : a brief history with documents / by Barbara B. Diefendorf.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Diefendorf, Barbara B., 1946-

Contributor:

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

Horace Howard Furness Memorial Library (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Bedford series in history and culture

The Bedford series in History and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572.

Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572--Sources.

Religious tolerance.

History.

Religion and state.

France--History--Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.

France.

Religion and state--France--History.

Religious tolerance--France--History--16th century.

Genre:

Sources.

Physical Description:

xviii, 173 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Boston, Mass. ; New York : Bedford/St. Martin's, 2009.

Contents:

Introduction. Saint Bartholomew's Day and the problem of religious violence

[Section] 1. Religious divisions in sixteenth-century France

1. The antithesis of Jesus Christ and the pope / Simon du Rosier (1561)

2. Description of the city of God besieged by the wretched heretics / Artus Desiré (1550)

3. A Catholic view of clandestine Protestant services / Claude Haton (1557)

4. Report to the Swiss delegation concerning the affair of the Rue Saint-Jacques / Reformed Church of Paris (1557)

5. Conviction of Marguerite Le Riche for heresy / Parlement of Paris (Aug. 19, 1559)

6. Anne du Bourg, counselor in the Parlement of Paris, burned on the Place de Grève / Jean Perrissin and Jacques Tortorel (Dec. 21, 1559)

7. The conversion of Jean de Pas, Lord of Feuquères / Charlotte d'Arbaleste

8. The massacre at Cahors in Quercy / Jean Perrissin and Jacques Tortorel (Nov. 19, 1561)

9. Discourse on the sacking of Catholic churches by the heretics / Claude de Sainctes (1562)

10. The true story of the insurrection, uprising, and sedition directed by the priests of Saint-Médard against the faithful (1562)

[Section] 2. Religious war and the intensification of religious hatreds, 1562-1570

11. Song on the massacre of Vassy (1562)

12. A Catholic view of the surprise of Meaux / François Grin (1567)

13. The execution in effigy of Gaspard de Coligny / Claude Haton (1569)

14. Reactions in Paris to the Peace of Saint-Germain / Jean de la Fosse (1570-1571)

[Section] 3. The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris and the provinces

15. A true and plain report of the furious outrages of France / François Hotman (1573)

16. Report to the Venetian senate on the wounding of the admiral / Giovanni Michiel (1572)

17. The Catholic response to a Huguenot plot / Claude Haton (1572)

18. Report by the merchants' provost (Aug. 23, 1572)

19. Painting of the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre in Paris / François Dubois

20. Memoirs of the state of France under Charles IX / Simon Goulart (1578)

21. Escape from the massacre / Charlotte d'Arbaleste (1572)

22. The wake-up call for the French and their neighbors (1574)

23. Declaration on the reasons for the admiral's death / Charles IX (Aug. 28, 1572)

24. The massacre in Orléans / Johann-Wilhelm von Botzheim (1573)

25. The massacre at Troyes (1572)

26. Extract from city registers / Consuls of Limoges (1572)

[Section] 4. Repercussions of the massacre in France and abroad

27. Huguenot conversions in the wake of the massacre / Nicolas Pithou

28. Confession of his descent into popery / Hugues Sureau du Rosier (1574)

29. Letter to the abbot of Saint-Gall on events in Paris / Joachim Opser (1572)

30. Letter to the Venetian ambassadors in France / The Venetian Senate (1572)

31. German print of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

32. Protestant resistance theory : the wake-up call for the French and their neighbors (1574)

33. Horrible cruelties of the Huguenots in France / Richard Verstegan (1587)

34. The edict of Nantes / Henry IV (1598)

35. Speech to the magistrates of the Parlement of Paris / Henry IV (1599)

[Section] 5. Memories of the massacre

36. Apology for Raymond Sebond / Michel de Montaigne (1588)

37. The philosophical dictionary on fanaticism / Voltaire (1764)

38. Message to his holiness Pope John Paul II / Coordinating Committee for the Charter for Living (1997)

39. Address to World Youth Day celebrants / Pope John Paul II (1997)

Appendix. A chronology of the religious conflicts in France, 1517-1598.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (page 163 - 165) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Horace Howard Furness Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

0312413602

9780312413606

OCLC:

255978931