The Saint Bartholomew's Day massacre
The Mysteries of a Crime of State
On 18 August 1572, Paris hosted the lavish wedding of Marguerite de Valois and Henri de Navarre, which was designed to seal the reconciliation of France's Catholics and Protestants. Only six days later, the execution of the Protestant leaders on the orders of the king's council unleashed a vast massacre by Catholics of thousands of Protestants in Paris and elsewhere. Why was the celebration of concord followed so quickly by such unrestrained carnage? Arlette Jouanna's new reading of the most notorious massacre in early modern European history rejects most of the established accounts, especially those privileging conspiracy, in favour of an…
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Weitere Autoren: Bergin, Joseph (Übers.)
- ISBN: 978-1-5261-1218-7
- EAN: 9781526112187
- Produktnummer: 27907601
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 320 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 795 KB
Über den Autor
Arlette Jouanna is Professor Emerita of History at the University of Montpellier-III, France-Joseph Bergin is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Manchester, Fellow of the British Academy and Correspondant Étranger, Institut de France.
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