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9780521023870

Noble Power during the French Wars of Religion: The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy

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    9780521023870

  • ISBN10:

    0521023874

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2005-11-24
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Noble affinities were the essence of power in sixteenth-century France. This is the first book to analyze the development of a noble following during the whole course of the Wars of Religion. The Guise were one of the greatest families of Christendom and this is the first substantial work on them for a century. In Normandy, a stronghold of Protestantism, they built a formidable ultra-Catholic party that ultimately challenged the monarchy. This book breaks new ground by discussing all groups in political society, from international dynastic politics to peasant revolt.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction: the rise of the house of Lorraine in Normandy
2. Servants and clients
3. Faction, religious schism and dynastic strategy, 1558-62
4. Civil war and blood feud, 1562-1574
5. Malcontents and defenders of the faith: the building of a power base
6. The triumph of the Guise affinity in Normandy
7. The Catholic League in Normandy: hegemony and decline
Conclusion
Appendices
Bibliography.

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