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The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State Hardback - 2013
by Arlette Jouanna
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- Title The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: The Mysteries of a Crime of State
- Author Arlette Jouanna
- Binding Hardback
- Condition New
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Manchester University Press
- Date 2013
- Features Bibliography, Glossary, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780719088315
- ISBN 9780719088315 / 0719088313
- Weight 1.3 lbs (0.59 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 6.2 x 1.1 in (23.37 x 15.75 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: French
- Library of Congress subjects France - History - Wars of the Huguenots,, Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of,
- Dewey Decimal Code 944.029
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From the rear cover
On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France's Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution, on the orders of the king's council, of the Protestant leaders unleashed a vast massacre by Catholics of thousands of Protestants in Paris and elsewhere. How did the celebration of concord give way so quickly to an explosion of violence, and the preventitive execution of a few leaders to unrestrained carnage? Who were the key players in these terrible events? Arlette Jouanna re-interprets the worst massacre in early modern European history, rejecting most of the established accounts, especially those privileging conspiracy. Instead, she views the decision to resort to summary justice as an attempt, based on reason of state, to preserve the king's endangered authority. The tragedy stimulated widespread reflection on the foundations of royal power, the limits of authority and obedience, and the danger of religious division for France's political traditions. Such reflection helped steer France in the direction of royal absolutism. This nuanced and wide-ranging account, based on extensive new research and a careful examination of the existing historiography, is the most authoritative analysis of its subject, and written in a style that will appeal to both specialist historians and a wider public seeking to examine the European roots of the connections between religion and violence.
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- Choice, 12/01/2013, Page 0