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The French wars of religion, 1562-1629 / Mack P. Holt.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Holt, Mack P., author.
- Series:
- New approaches to European history ; 8.
- New approaches to European history ; 8
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- France. Edit de Nantes.
- France.
- Reformation--France.
- Reformation.
- Religion and politics--France.
- Religion and politics.
- Huguenots--History--17th century.
- Huguenots.
- France--History--Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 239 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book is an accessible and comprehensive study of the French wars of religion, designed specifically for undergraduate students. Drawing on the latest scholarship of a generation of social historians of the Reformation, 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. By analysing the conflict as a cultural clash between two communities bent on defining the boundaries between the sacred and the profane in explicitly different ways, the author attempts to explain why the wars lasted for so long and why they ended in the way that they did.
- Contents:
- 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, 1593-1610
- 7. Epilogue: the last war of religion, 1610-1629
- 8. Conclusions: economic impact, social change, and absolutism.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780511131844
- 0511131844
- 9781139163682
- 113916368X
- Publisher Number:
- 2027/heb01888 hdl
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