Judging the French Reformation
Subtitle: heresy trials by sixteenth-century parlements
By: William Monter.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Trials (Heresy) -- France -- History -- 16th century; Reformation -- France
Description: "Until now no one has investigated systematically the judicial history of the French Reformation. William Monter has examined the myriad encounters between Protestants and judges in French parlements, extracting information from abundant but unindexed registers of official criminal decisions both in Paris and in provincial capitals, and identifying more than 425 prisoners condemned to death for heresy by French courts between 1523 and 1560.

He notes the ways in which Protestants resisted the French judicial system even before the religious wars, and sets their story within the context of heresy prosecutions elsewhere in Reformation Europe, and within the long-term history of French criminal justice."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 275-318) and index.