The Saint Bartholomew S Day Massacre

Author : Barbara B. Diefendorf
Publisher : Macmillan Higher Education
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781319241674

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The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre by Barbara B. Diefendorf Pdf

A riveting account of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, its origins, and its aftermath, this volume by Barbara B. Diefendorf introduces students to the most notorious episode in France’s sixteenth century civil and religious wars and an event of lasting historical importance. The murder of thousands of French Protestants by Catholics in August 1572 influenced not only the subsequent course of France’s civil wars and state building, but also patterns of international alliance and long-standing cultural values across Europe. The book begins with an introduction that explores the political and religious context for the massacre and traces the course of the massacre and its aftermath. The featured documents offer a rich array of sources on the conflict — including royal edicts, popular songs, polemics, eyewitness accounts, memoirs, paintings, and engravings — to enable students to explore the massacre, the nature of church-state relations, the moral responsibility of secular and religious authorities, and the origins and consequences of religious persecution and intolerance in this period. Useful pedagogic aids include headnotes and gloss notes to the documents, a list of major figures, a chronology of key events, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index.

Author : Arlette Jouanna
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 435 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526112187

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The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre by Arlette Jouanna Pdf

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 of the Protestant leaders on the orders of the king’s council unleashed a vast massacre by Catholics of thousands of Protestants in Paris and elsewhere. Why was the celebration of concord followed so quickly by such unrestrained carnage? Arlette Jouanna’s new reading of the most notorious massacre in early modern European history rejects most of the established accounts, especially those privileging conspiracy, in favour of an explanation based on ideas of reason of state. The Massacre stimulated reflection on royal power, the limits of authority and obedience, and the danger of religious division for France’s political traditions. Based on extensive research and a careful examination of existing interpretations, this book is the most authoritative analysis of a shattering event.

Author : Robert M. Kingdon
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0674182197

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Myths about the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacres, 1572-1576 by Robert M. Kingdon Pdf

An epochal event in French history, the St. Bartholomew's Day religious massacres are still the subject of controversy. A leading historian of the early modern period, Robert Kingdon, writes about the reactions to the massacres that were published at the time, showing how the relatively new medium of print was used by the Protestants to shape reaction to the catastrophe an early example of the printing press as an agent of social and political change. Kingdon describes the loosely connected network of printers in Geneva, Basel, Strasbourg, Frankfurt, Heidelberg, London, La Rochelle, and other cities that printed and distributed the grisly accounts of the murders of thousands of Protestants by Catholic zealots. But the pamphlets encompassed more than the making of martyrs. Some linked the massacres with an evil international conspiracy led by the French monarchy, Rome, and Spain. Others were political treatises arguing for a type of government that would no longer claim absolute power and would permit the survival of an ideological minority. Thus, the book contributes to an understanding of the history of printed propaganda and the role of myths in historical events, and illuminates important aspects of international diplomacy and political thought during the period of the later Reformation.

Author : Barbara B. Diefendorf
Publisher : Bedford/St. Martin's
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2008-09-02
Category : History
ISBN : 0312413602

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The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre by Barbara B. Diefendorf Pdf

A riveting account of the Saint Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, its origins, and its aftermath, this volume by Barbara B. Diefendorf introduces students to the most notorious episode in France’s sixteenth century civil and religious wars and an event of lasting historical importance. The murder of thousands of French Protestants by Catholics in August 1572 influenced not only the subsequent course of France’s civil wars and state building, but also patterns of international alliance and long-standing cultural values across Europe. The book begins with an introduction that explores the political and religious context for the massacre and traces the course of the massacre and its aftermath. The featured documents offer a rich array of sources on the conflict — including royal edicts, popular songs, polemics, eyewitness accounts, memoirs, paintings, and engravings — to enable students to explore the massacre, the nature of church-state relations, the moral responsibility of secular and religious authorities, and the origins and consequences of religious persecution and intolerance in this period. Useful pedagogic aids include headnotes and gloss notes to the documents, a list of major figures, a chronology of key events, questions for consideration, a selected bibliography, and an index.

Author : G. A. Henty
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547357926

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Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars by G. A. Henty Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Saint Bartholomew's Eve: A Tale of the Huguenot Wars" by G. A. Henty. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : henry white
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 548 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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the massacre of st. bartholomew by henry white Pdf

Author : Geoffrey Treasure
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300196191

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The Huguenots by Geoffrey Treasure Pdf

From the author of Louis XIV, an unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora. Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win—however briefly—freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a protected minority. But in 1685, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished all Huguenot rights, and more than 200,000 of the radical Calvinists were forced to flee across Europe, some even farther. In this capstone work, Geoffrey Treasure tells the full story of the Huguenots’ rise, survival, and fall in France over the course of a century and a half. He explores what it was like to be a Huguenot living in a “state within a state,” weaving stories of ordinary citizens together with those of statesmen, feudal magnates, leaders of the Catholic revival, Henry of Navarre, Catherine de’ Medici, Louis XIV, and many others. Treasure describes the Huguenots’ disciplined community, their faith and courage, their rich achievements, and their unique place within Protestantism and European history. The Huguenot exodus represented a crucial turning point in European history, Treasure contends, and he addresses the significance of the Huguenot story—the story of a minority group with the power to resist and endure in one of early modern Europe’s strongest nations. “A formidable work, covering complex, fascinating, horrifying and often paradoxical events over a period of more than 200 years…Treasure’s work is a monument to the courage and heroism of the Huguenots.”—Piers Paul Read, The Tablet

Author : Alfred Soman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789401016018

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The Massacre of St. Bartholomew by Alfred Soman Pdf

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 the occasion of an extraordinary influx of French Calvin ists into the notoriously Catholic capital. Hundreds of Huguenots had journeyed to Paris to honor their titular leader and participate in the wedding celebrations. Tensions were already running high when the court made the fatal decision to take advantage of the situation and assassinate the admiral of France, Gaspard de Coligny, the recognized leader of the Huguenot armies which had helped plunge the country into ten years of intermittent civil war, and who now threatened to embroil the kingdom in a full-scale foreign war with Spain. On Friday the twenty-second, as he returned from the Louvre to his lodgings, Coligny paused in the street - some say to receive a letter, others to doff his hat to an acquaintance or to adjust his hose - and was fired on by a hired assassin hidden in a house known to belong to one of the ultra-Catholic Guise faction. The arquebus shot missed its mark and succeeded only in wounding the admiral in his hand and arm, where upon he was carried by his followers to his bed.

Author : Henry Heller
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0802036899

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Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-century France by Henry Heller Pdf

He also discusses the important role of anti-Italian xenophobia in the events surrounding the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, the Estates-General of Blois in 1576-7, the Catholic League revolt, and the triumph of Henri IV.".

Author : Scott M. Manetsch
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 9004111018

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Theodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France by Scott M. Manetsch Pdf

This volume presents a fascinating account of the political strategies, religious attitudes, and resistance activities of Theodore Beza and other French Protestant leaders between the Saint Bartholomew's Day massacres (1572) and the Edict of Nantes (1598).

Author : Henry White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : France
ISBN : OXFORD:600034778

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The Massacre of St. Bartholomew by Henry White Pdf

A history of the religious wars during the reign of Charles IX, including the War of the Huguenots, and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.

Author : Charlotte Arbaleste Duplessis-Mornay,Anne de Chaufepié,Anne Marguerite Petit Du Noyer
Publisher : Iter Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-07
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0866986189

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The Huguenot Experience of Persecution and Exile by Charlotte Arbaleste Duplessis-Mornay,Anne de Chaufepié,Anne Marguerite Petit Du Noyer Pdf

This volume provides an English translation of firsthand testimonies by three early modern French women. It illustrates the Huguenot experience of persecution and exile during the bloodiest times in the history of Protestantism: the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, the dragonnades, and the Huguenot exodus following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. The selections given here feature these women’s experiences of escape, the effects of religious strife on their families, and their reliance on other women amid the terrors of war. Edited by Colette H. Winn. Translated by Lauren King and Colette H. Winn The Other Voice in Early Modern Europe: The Toronto Series, Vol. 68

Author : Philippe Erlanger
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Saint Bartholomew's Day, Massacre of, France, 1572
ISBN : NWU:35556009749698

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St. Bartholomew's Night by Philippe Erlanger Pdf

Author : Stuart Carroll
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780191619700

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Martyrs and Murderers by Stuart Carroll Pdf

The House of Guise was one of the greatest princely families of the sixteenth century, or indeed of any age. Today they are best remembered through the tragic life of one family member, Mary Queen of Scots. But the story of her Guise uncles, aunts and cousins is if anything more gripping - and certainly of greater significance in the history of Europe. The Guise family rose to prominence as the greatest enemy of the House of Habsburg and had dreams of a great dynastic empire that included the British Isles and southern Italy. They were among the staunchest opponents of the Reformation, played a major role in re-fashioning Catholicism at the Council of Trent before plunging France into a bloody civil war that culminated in the infamous St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. They protected English Catholic refugees, plotted to invade England and overthrow Elizabeth I, and ended the century by unleashing Europe's first religious revolution, before succumbing in a counter-revolution that made them martyrs for the Catholic cause. Martyrs and Murderers is the first comprehensive modern biography of the Guise family in any language. In it Stuart Carroll unravels the legends which cast them either as heroes or as villains of the Reformation, weaving a remarkable story that challenges traditional assumptions about one of Europe's most turbulent and formative eras.

Author : Brendan Simms
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9780465065950

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Europe by Brendan Simms Pdf

With "verve and panache," this magisterial history of Europe since 1453 shows how struggles over the heart of the continent have shaped the world we live in today (The Economist). Whoever controls the core of Europe controls the entire continent, and whoever controls Europe can dominate the world. Over the past five centuries, a rotating cast of kings, conquerors, presidents, and dictators have set their sights on the European heartland, desperate to seize this pivotal area or at least prevent it from falling into the wrong hands. From Charles V and Napoleon to Bismarck and Cromwell, from Hitler and Stalin to Roosevelt and Gorbachev, nearly all the key power players of modern history have staked their titanic visions on this vital swath of land. In Europe, prizewinning historian Brendan Simms presents an authoritative account of the past half-millennium of European history, demonstrating how the battle for mastery of the continent's center has shaped the modern world. A bold and compelling work by a renowned scholar, Europe integrates religion, politics, military strategy, and international relations to show how history -- and Western civilization itself -- was forged in the crucible of Europe.