PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION
How Important Were Religious Factors?
Edited with an introduction by
John Hearsey McMillan Salmon
D. C. Heath and Company - Boston
1967
Table of Contents
Introduction
I. CAUSES
The Domination of Political Motives
-James Westfall Thompson
Calvinist Religious Aggression
-Robert M. Kingdon
Calvinist Self-Defence
-Samuel Mours
Calvin's Idealism and Indecision
-N. M. Sutherland
A Dissident Nobility Under the Cloak of Religion
-Lucien Romier
Political Anarchy and Social Discontent
-Henri Hauser
The Failure of Catherine de Medici
-Sir John Neale
II. CHARACTER
Protestant Democratic Liberty and Sinister Catholic Conspiracy
-Jules Michelet
The Massacre of St. Bartholemew: Reason of State and Ideological Conflict
-Jean Héritier
The Catholic League: Popular Revolution and Fanaticism
-Jean-Baptiste-Honoré Capefique
The Catholic League: Popular Insurrection as the Instrument of Aristocracy and Clergy
-Paul Robiquet
Spain and the League: The Decay of the Supranational Religious Ideal
-De Lamar Jensen
Noble Faction and Republican Independence: Provence and Marseille
-Fernard Braudel
III. CONSEQUENCES
The Development of Political Ideas
-J. H. M. Salmon
Social Disruption and the Undermining of Monarchial Government
-Jean-Hippolyte Mariéjol
The Uprooting of the Nobility
-Pierre de Vaissière
The Hardening of Class Divisions
-Henri Drouot
A Revolution in Land Ownership: The Expropriation of the Peasants
-Georges Livet
Suggestions for additional reading
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