The French wars of religion, 1599-1598 | WorldCat.org (original) (raw)

Genre:0 Gesamtdarstellung

Physical Description:VIII, 153 Seiten : Karten ; 20 cm.

ISBN:

9780582354562, 0582354560

OCLC Number / Unique Identifier:883372530

Contents:

Part 1 The growth of Calvinism: the early French Reformation; John Calvin (1509-64); the creation of a militant church. Part 2 The nobility in crisis: Calvinism and the nobility; the growth of faction; analysis. Part 3 The crisis of 1559-60. Part 4 Catherine de Medici and the colloquy. Part 5 The first three religious wars: the first war; the second war; the third war. Part 6 The Catholic league. Part 7 Contrasting ideologies: the Huguenot doctrine of resistance; the political thought of the Catholic League. Part 8 "Paris is worth a Mass" - the triumph of Henry of Navarre: the edict of Nantes (13 April 1598); assessment. Part 9 The destructiveness of the wars: political effects; social and economic effects; recovery; documents; genealogies - the later Valois, the house of Guise-Lorraine, the house of Montmorency, the house of Bourbon-Vendome.