<P>In the second half of the sixteenth century, France was racked by religious civil wars and peace was only restored when Henry of Navarre finally converted to Catholicism, deciding ¿ in his immortal phrase ¿ that ''Paris is worth a mass''. </P><P>In this lucid introduction to a complex period in French history, Robert Knecht:</P><UL><LI>Explains the evangelical and Lutheran origins of the Huguenot Church in France</LI><LI>Challenges simplistic interpretations of the religious conflict as purely a cloak for political rebellion</LI><LI>Provides concise analysis of the wars themselves and the ferment of political ideas which they generated</LI><LI>Evaluates the extent of France¿s recovery under Henry IV</LI></UL><P> This third edition has been updated throughout to take account of the latest scholarship, particularly on the Massacre of St. Bartholomew and the reign of Henry III when the monarchy almost succumbed to the challenge posed by the Catholic League. There is a new co
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This is the 2005 second edition of a comprehensive study of the French wars of religion. Focusing on the social history of religion, it argues that this conflict was fomented by religious tensions among the population at large. The text has been updated...
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In the wake of WWI, religious identity and practice became tools for leaders to appropriate as instruments to define national belonging, often to the detriment of those outside the faith tradition. This book places ethnonationalism - a particular articulation...
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