The French Wars of Religion,1562–1629
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loginThis is a new edition of Mack P. Holt’s classic study of the Frenchreligious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing onthe scholarship of social and cultural historians of the Reformation,it shows how religion infused both politics and the socio-economictensions of the period to produce a long extended civil war. ProfessorHolt integrates court politics and the political theory of the elites with thereligious experiences of the popular classes, offering a fresh perspectiveon the wars and on why the French were willing to kill their neighboursin the name of religion. The book has been created specifically forundergraduates and general readers with no background knowledge ofeither French history or the Reformation. This new edition updates thetext in the light of new work published in the last decade an
