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Record Nr.

UNINA9910782734003321

Autore

Heller Henry

Titolo

Iron and blood : civil wars in sixteenth century France / / Henry Heller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991

ISBN

1-282-85188-8

9786612851889

0-7735-6276-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiv, 191 pages)

Disciplina

944/.028

Soggetti

Revolutions - France - History - 16th century

Social conflict - France - History - 16th century

France History 16th century

France History Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [168]-183) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Glossary -- Introduction -- The Golden Age Turns to Iron: The Small Producers’ Revolt -- Bourgeois Calvinism and Aristocratic Reaction -- The Huguenot Republic -- The Commoners’ Revolt -- The Democratic League -- The Croquants’ Revolt -- A Society of Orders in Crisis -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Iron and Blood will permanently change the way we perceive sixteenth-century French history. Henry Heller shows that mounting social unrest in the first half of the century finally resulted in the French Civil Wars. Challenging the works of Fernand Braudel and Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Heller argues that well before the 1560s, in the midst of the apparent prosperity and tranquillity of the French Renaissance, French society was marked by acute social tensions that regularly exploded in uprisings and rebellions. Heller demonstrates that the historical events of sixteenth-century France were unified by an increasing level of social conflict.