ISBN: 9780195070132

The religious conflicts of sixteenth-century France, particularly the St. Bartholomew''s Day massacres of 1572, continue to draw a good deal of attention from historians. What started as … Mehr…

The religious conflicts of sixteenth-century France, particularly the St. Bartholomew''s Day massacres of 1572, continue to draw a good deal of attention from historians. What started as a limited coup against the Huguenot leadership became instead a conflagration that left two thousand or moreProtestants dead in the streets and ushered in a series of bloody religious battles. Until now, however, historians have been preoccupied with the political aspects of the conflicts, and histories have focused on the roles of the king and high noblemen in the assassinations that sparked themassacres, rather than the mass violence. In this compelling and unique study, Diefendorf closely examines popular religious fanaticism and religious hatred. She focuses on the roots and escalation of the conflicts, the propaganda of Catholic and Protestant preachers, popular religious beliefs andrituals, the role of the militia, and the underground activities of the Protestant community after the massacres. Drawing on a wide array of published and unpublished sources, Beneath the Cross is the most comprehensive social history to date of these religious conflicts. | Beneath the Cross by Barbara B. Diefendorf Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > History > European History > Western European History > French History P10103, Barbara B. Diefendorf<

ISBN: 9780195070132

The religious conflicts of sixteenth-century France, particularly the St. Bartholomew''s Day massacres of 1572, continue to draw a good deal of attention from historians. What started as … Mehr…

The religious conflicts of sixteenth-century France, particularly the St. Bartholomew''s Day massacres of 1572, continue to draw a good deal of attention from historians. What started as a limited coup against the Huguenot leadership became instead a conflagration that left two thousand or moreProtestants dead in the streets and ushered in a series of bloody religious battles. Until now, however, historians have been preoccupied with the political aspects of the conflicts, and histories have focused on the roles of the king and high noblemen in the assassinations that sparked themassacres, rather than the mass violence. In this compelling and unique study, Diefendorf closely examines popular religious fanaticism and religious hatred. She focuses on the roots and escalation of the conflicts, the propaganda of Catholic and Protestant preachers, popular religious beliefs andrituals, the role of the militia, and the underground activities of the Protestant community after the massacres. Drawing on a wide array of published and unpublished sources, Beneath the Cross is the most comprehensive social history to date of these religious conflicts. | Beneath the Cross by Barbara B. Diefendorf Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Europe P10103, Barbara B. Diefendorf<

1991, ISBN: 9780195070132

Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris, Buch, Softcover, The religious conflicts of sixteenth-century France, in particular the St Bartholomew's Day massacres of 1572, continu… Mehr…

Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris, Buch, Softcover, The religious conflicts of sixteenth-century France, in particular the St Bartholomew's Day massacres of 1572, continue to draw a good deal of attention from historians. What started as a limited coup against the Huguenot leadership became instead a conflagration that left two thousand or more Protestants dead in the streets and ushered in a series of bloody religious battles. Previous histories of the religious conflicts have been preoccupied with their political aspects, but have not examined the mass violence. Diefendorf focuses on popular religious fanaticism and religious hatred. She examines the roots and escalation of the conflicts, the propaganda of Catholic and Protestant preachers, popular religious beliefs and rituals, the role of the militia, and the underground activities of the Protestant community after the massacres. Using a wide array of published and unpublished sources, she provides the most comprehensive social history to date of these religious conflicts. [PU: Oxford University Press Inc], Seiten: 288, Oxford University Press Inc, 1991<