The French Wars of Religion, 1562–1629 - Rilegato

Holt, Mack P.

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ISBN 10: 0521353599 ISBN 13: 9780521353595

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Riassunto

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.

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Descrizione del libro:

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.

Contenuti:

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.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521353599
• ISBN 13: 9780521353595
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 253