Religion and royal justice in early modern France
Subtitle: the Paris Chambre de l'Edit, 1598-1665
By: Diane C. Margolf
Series: Sixteenth century essays & studies -- v. 67
Publisher: Truman State University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Kirksville, Mo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: France. -- Chambre de l'Edit (Paris); Huguenots -- History -- 17th century
Description: "Diane Margolf looks at the Paris Chambre de l'Edit in this study about the special royal law court that adjudicated disputes between French Huguenots and the Catholics. Using archival records of the court's criminal cases, Margolf analyzes the connections to three major issues in early modern French and European history: religious conflict and coexistence, the growing claims of the French crown to define and maintain order, and competing concepts of community and identity in the French state and society. Based on previously unexplored archival materials, Margolf examines the court through a cultural lens and offers portraits of ordinary men and women who were litigants before the court, and the magistrates who heard their cases."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 195-211) and index
Table of contents: title: Huguenots & the law in seventeenth-century France; title: Magistrates, litigants, & the Paris Chambre de l'Edit; title: Memory, litigation, & the Paris Chambre de l'Edit; title: The family, the law, & the Paris Chambre de l'Edit; title: Violence, punishment, & public peace; title: The Huguenots & the law revisited