Governing Passions
Subtitle: Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: October 12, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9780199214907
Subjects: European history: c 1500 to c 1750; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; History; History - General History; History: World; Europe - France; History / France; 1562-1598; Constitutional history; France; Henry III, 1574-1589; Politics and government
Description: A re-evaluation of the central period in the French 'wars of religion', concentrating on the reactions of France's governing groups to these wars and drawing extensively on sources not hitherto examined to illuminate the sense of crisis that existed among the French governing elite at this time.