num_pages: 260
description: This book is a new edition of Mack P. Holt's classic study of the French religious wars of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Drawing on the scholarship of social and cultural historians of the Reformation, it shows how religion infused both politics and the socio-economic tensions of the period to produce a long extended civil war. Professor Holt integrates court politics and the political theory of the elites with the religious experiences of the popular classes, offering a fresh perspective on the wars and on why the French were willing to kill their neighbors in the name of religion.
language: English
title: The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629
titlecomplete: The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (New Approaches to European History)
characters: Catherine de Medici, Henry IV of France
genres: History, Religion, Military History, 17th Century, France, European History, Academic, Nonfiction, 16th Century
ratings_count: 112
series: New Approaches to European History
publisher: Cambridge University Press