Good newes from Fraunce
Subtitle: French anti-league propaganda in late Elizabethan England
By: by Lisa Ferraro Parmelee.
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Rochester, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
Subjects: Propaganda, French -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Political science -- Great Britain -- History -- 16th century.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 1558-1603.; France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 -- Propaganda.; Great Britain -- Civilization -- French influences.; Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- France.; France -- Foreign relations -- Great Britain.; France -- Foreign relations -- 16th century.
Description: The French Religious Wars generated a large body of political propaganda from the Huguenots, the Politiques (a Huguenot-Catholic confederacy) and the Catholic League. Dr. Parmelee discusses how, in the last decades of the reign of Elizabeth I some 130 translated documents were imported into England, most of them - originating from the Politiques, written in support of the Protestant Henry of Navarre's accession to the French throne - advocating religious tolerance as a way to peace.

She argues that while most English political thinkers did not openly embrace or articulate the absolutist ideas often expressed in these writings, they had a wide impact on political discourse in the late Elizabethan period. They were useful against foreign enemies, Catholic recusants and Presbyterians, but particularly, in a time of fear of civil war engendered by an unsettled succession, they helped to establish an intellectual climate conducive to the later development of Stuart absolutism.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-197) and index.