The French Wars of Religion Selected Documents
- List Price: $89.95
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publish date: 01/01/1998
Description:
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. This selection of documents includes: key legislative acts from the edicts concerning religion and toleration in the 1560's through the 1590's; sources on types of religious violence during the early years of the wars; a detailed examination of the of Saint Barthlolomew; the early years of Henry III and the emergence of the first of the Catholic leagues; and the breakdown of royal authority in the 1580s and its restoration by Henry IV.
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