The French wars of religion, 1562-1629, Mack P. Holt
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The French wars of religion, 1562-1629, Mack P. Holt
Language
eng
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index present
Literary form
non fiction
Main title
The French wars of religion, 1562-1629
Medium
electronic resource
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dictionaries
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55716630
Responsibility statement
Mack P. Holt
Series statement
New approaches to European history, 8Cambridge Social Sciences eBooksACLS Humanities E-Book
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.--, Provided by publisher
Table of 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
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