The French wars of religion, 1562-1629
This book is the first accessible and comprehensive study of the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries to appear for more than twenty years. Designed specifically for undergraduate students and general readers, 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
Print Book, English, 1995
Cambridge University Press, Cambridge [England], 1995
Electronic resources (Books)
xiv, 239 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
9780521353595, 9780521358736, 0521353599, 0521358736
31969756
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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