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Record Nr.

UNINA9910792258503321

Autore

Greengrass Mark <1949->

Titolo

Governing passions [[electronic resource] ] : peace and reform in the French kingdom, 1576-1585 / / Mark Greengrass

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, c2007

ISBN

1-281-14937-3

9786611149376

1-4416-0715-3

0-19-152685-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (440 p.)

Disciplina

944/.029

Soggetti

Constitutional history

France History Henry III, 1574-1589

France Politics and government 1562-1598

France Church history 16th century

France Intellectual life 16th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-408) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Figure, Tables, and Map; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 Defeat and Reformation; 2 Comprehending Passions; Eloquence and the Passions; Moral Philosophy in the Sixteenth Century; The 'Palace Academy' and the Passions; The Projet d'Éloquence Royale; 3 The Estates of Blois and the Bien Public; A Beneficent Myth; The Peace of Monsieur (6 May 1576) and its Aftermath; Setting an Agenda; Catholicity and the Commonwealth; Conferring for the Common Weal; A Gallican Interlude; A Project for the Common Good; 'Advice' for the King; A Diplomatic Offensive

The Estates, Peace, and Reformation4 Le Chemin de la Paix, 1577-1579; Making Peace; The King's Peace; A Ceasefire; Instruments of Peace; Missionaries in Search of Peace; 5 Dissent in the Country; 'Pernicious Enterprises'; 'A General Reformation of Things'; 'Trouble-Makers'; 6 The Perfection of Peace, 1579-1580; 'Our Guyenne Expedition'; The Conference at Nérac; 'Que les petites choses croissent par concorde'; 7 France through the Looking Glass, 1581-1582; French



Calvinists and the Governance of the Passions; The Peace of Fleix; The 'Credibility Gap' in Guyenne, 1581-1583

The Miroir des François8 Restoring Virtue, 1579-1582; 'Quatrains' of Virtue; 'Beaucoup de belles et bonnes ordonnances'; The Sale of Offices; The Assembly of the Clergy and the Reform of the Church, 1579-1580; 'Nostre souveraine nourrice, la Pénitence'; 9 The Assembly of Notables, 1583-1584; 'Personages of Authority and Quality to See and Visit our Subjects'; Tours of Duty; Mines of Information; The Deliberations of the Notables; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Sommario/riassunto

A major scholarly re-evaluation of the central period in the French 'wars of religion', concentrating on the reactions of France's governing groups to these wars and drawing extensively on sources not hitherto examined to illuminate the sense of crisis that existed among the French governing elite at this time. - ;The French kingdom dissolved into civil wars, known as the 'wars of religion', for a generation from 1562 to 1598. This book examines the reactions of France's governing groups to that experience. Their major political endeavour was securing peace. They attempted to achieve it throug