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Martyrs and murderers : the Guise family and the making of Europe / Stuart Carroll.
LIBRA DC36.8.G84 C37 2009
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carroll, Stuart, 1965-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Guise, House of.
- Nobility--France--Biography.
- Nobility.
- Nobility--Political activity.
- France.
- Nobility--Political activity--France.
- France--History--Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.
- History.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 345 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- tells the Story of three generations of treacherous, bloodthirsty power-brokers. It is the sensational saga of the House of Guise, one of the greatest princely families of the sixteenth century, or indeed of any age.
- Contents:
- 1 Invitation to a Massacre 1
- 2 'All for One: One for All' 21
- 3 Dreams Of Empire 50
- 4 Chacun ° Son Tour 80
- 5 Congregations, Conspiracies, and Coups 100
- 6 The Cardinal's Compromise 128
- 7 Bloodfued 160
- Interlude: Princess Margot and The 'Negress' 185
- 8 A Wedding and Four Thousand Funerals 192
- 9 False Kings and True Catholics 221
- 10 The Invasion of England 242
- 11 Revolution 256
- 12 Counter-Revolution 281.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199229079
- 0199229074
- OCLC:
- 320193300
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