PROBLEMS IN EUROPEAN CIVILIZATION

THE FRENCH WARS OF RELIGION

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

Chronology

The Conflict of Opinion

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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