The Massacre of St. Bartholomew Reappraisals and Documents
On 18 August 1572, Marguerite de Valois, sister of King Charles IX, was married in Paris to Henri de Navarre, "first prince of the blood" and a Protestant. This union, which was to cement the provisions of the Peace of St. Germain (1570) ending the third of the French wars of religion, was...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1974, 1974
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1974 |
| Series: | International Archives of the History of Ideas Archives internationales d'histoire des idées
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Table of Contents:
- I: St. Bartholomew and Europe
- 1. The Massacre of St. Bartholomew and the Problem of Spain
- 2. Reactions to the St. Bartholomew Massacres in Geneva and Rome25
- 3. The Elizabethans and St. Bartholomew
- 4. Imperialism, Particularism and Toleration in the Holy Roman Empire
- II: Two Unpublished Documents
- 5. Tomasso Sassetti’s Account of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
- 6. The Discourse Dedicated to Count Guido San Giorgio Aldobrandini
- III: Martyrs, Rioters and Polemicists
- 7. Martyrs, Myths, and the Massacre: The Background of St. Bartholomew
- 8. The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France
- 9. The Wars of Religion in Seventeenth-Century Huguenot Thought
- Conclusion: St. Bartholomew and Historical Perspective
- Notes on the Contributors