Governing passions : peace and reform in the French kingdom, 1576-1585 / Mark Greengrass.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greengrass, Mark, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Constitutional history.

France--History--Henry III, 1574-1589.

France.

France--Politics and government--1562-1598.

France--Church history--16th century.

France--Intellectual life--16th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A major scholarly re-evaluation of the central period in the French 'wars of religion', concentrating on the reactions of France's governing groups to these wars and drawing extensively on sources not hitherto examined to illuminate the sense of crisis that existed among the French governing elite at this time. - ;The French kingdom dissolved into civil wars, known as the 'wars of religion', for a generation from 1562 to 1598. This book examines the reactions of France's governing groups to that experience. Their major political endeavour was securing peace. They attempted to achieve it throug

Contents:

Contents; List of Figure, Tables, and Map; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Defeat and Reformation; 2 Comprehending Passions; Eloquence and the Passions; Moral Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century; The 'Palace Academy' and the Passions; The Projet d'Éloquence Royale; 3 The Estates of Blois and the Bien Public; A Beneficent Myth; The Peace of Monsieur (6 May 1576) and its Aftermath; Setting an Agenda; Catholicity and the Commonwealth; Conferring for the Common Weal; A Gallican Interlude; A Project for the Common Good; 'Advice' for the King; A Diplomatic Offensive

The Estates, Peace, and Reformation4 Le Chemin de la Paix, 1577-1579; Making Peace; The King's Peace; A Ceasefire; Instruments of Peace; Missionaries in Search of Peace; 5 Dissent in the Country; 'Pernicious Enterprises'; 'A General Reformation of Things'; 'Trouble-Makers'; 6 The Perfection of Peace, 1579-1580; 'Our Guyenne Expedition'; The Conference at Nérac; 'Que les petites choses croissent par concorde'; 7 France through the Looking Glass, 1581-1582; French Calvinists and the Governance of the Passions; The Peace of Fleix; The 'Credibility Gap' in Guyenne, 1581-1583

The Miroir des François8 Restoring Virtue, 1579-1582; 'Quatrains' of Virtue; 'Beaucoup de belles et bonnes ordonnances'; The Sale of Offices; The Assembly of the Clergy and the Reform of the Church, 1579-1580; 'Nostre souveraine nourrice, la Pénitence'; 9 The Assembly of Notables, 1583-1584; 'Personages of Authority and Quality to See and Visit our Subjects'; Tours of Duty; Mines of Information; The Deliberations of the Notables; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-408) and index.

ISBN:

1-281-14937-3

9786611149376

1-4416-0715-3

0-19-152685-1

OCLC:

476242030