French Wars of Religion: Selected Documents

ISBN-13: 9780333647998 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 304 str.

David Potter;trans

Opis

This book aims - through translations of key documents concerning communal religious violence, political confrontation and war - to provide the means to study the French Wars of Religion through the most important contemporary sources.

Documents include: key legislative acts of the period from the edicts concerning religion and toleration in 1560-62 to the 1590s; sources on types of religious violence during the early years of the wars; a detailed examination of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew; and the breakdown of royal authority in the 1580s and its restoration by Henry IV.

Each section is accompanied by a commentary which guides the reader through the documents translated.

Spis treści

Introduction.- Maps.- Note.- Abbreviations or References.- France on the Eve of War.- Religious Violence in the Early Years of Conflict.- The First War of Religion and the Pacification (1562-66).- The Second and Third Wars (1567-70).- The Era of the Saint Bartholomew Massacre.- The Accession of Henry III and the Estates-General (1574-7).- The Crisis of the League and Collapse of Royal Authority (1584-8).- Henry IV and the League (1589-95).- Epilogue: Henry IV and the Protestants.- Index.

O autorze

DAVID POTTER is Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Kent.