French Wars of Religion

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This book aims - through translations of key documents concerning communal religious violence, political confrontation and war - to provide the means to study the French Wars of Religion through the most important contemporary sources.Documents include: key legislative acts of the period from the edicts concerning religion and toleration in 1560-62 to the 1590s, sources on types of religious violence during the early years of the wars, a detailed examination of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew, and the breakdown of royal authority in the 1580s and its restoration by Henry IV.Each section is accompanied by a commentary which guides the reader through the documents translated.

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