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Record Nr.

UNINA9910495876803321

Autore

Roelker Nancy L (Nancy Lyman)

Titolo

One king, one faith : the Parlement of Paris and the religious reformations of the sixteenth century / / Nancy Lyman Roelker [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1996

ISBN

0-585-07919-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xi, 543 p. )

Disciplina

944/.029

Soggetti

Monarchy - France - History - 16th century

Reformation - France

Religion and politics - France - History - 16th century

Monarchy - History - 16th century - France

Reformation - History - 16th century - France

Religion and politics - France

Regions & Countries - Europe

History & Archaeology

France

History

France Civilization 1328-1600

France History Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"A Centennial book"--P. preceding t.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 491-508) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- PART 1: THE MAINSTREAM PARLEMENTAIRE MENTALITE: The mainstream parlementaires: who they were and how they got there -- Constitutionalism: a nexus of political-historical and professional values -- Cultural values -- Social and personal values -- PART 2: RELIGION IN THE PARLEMENTAIRE MENTALITE: Setting thhhhe problem: religious values -- Challenge and response of the early generation: mid-1520s to mid-1530s -- The engine of repression: the transitional generation, 1540-1551 -- The road to civil war (1): 1555-1561 -- The road to civil war (2): 1561-1562 -- The crisis generation in civil war, 1562-1582 -- PART 3: THE PARLEMENT AND THE LEAGUE, 1585-1594:



The buildup, 1585 to May 1588 -- The rebellion against the crown to the reign of Henry III, May 1588 to August 1, 1589 -- Terror and reaction, August 1589 to December 1591, 1592 -- The resurrection of the Parlement, 1593-1594 -- Epilogue: Plus Ca Change ..., 1594-1605 -- Hypotheses and conclusions -- Appendix: Pierre de L'Estoile as a documentary source for events, 1574-1611.

Sommario/riassunto

This book, the culmination of a lifelong career in French history, tackles head-on the central question of the French Religious Wars: Why did France prove so consistently hostile and resistant to Protestantism? Distinguished scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker claims that what ultimately motivated the passion and violence of the civil wars was religion. She demonstrates that not only the body politic but also the body social was defined by Gallican Catholicism.

Roelker underscores the role the Parlement played in shaping and safeguarding the social, as well as the political, order. Her study is based on extensive research in the correspondence, memoirs, tracts, diplomatic dispatches, and procedural manuals of mainstream Catholic magistrates as well as dissenters. It creates an overview of the mentalites of the Parlement, analyzes religious attitudes toward major events of the period, and examines the Parlement's role in the triumph of Henri IV. Along the way, it sheds light on the inner workings of the Parlement and other political institutions, on social structures, and on collective ideas.