The French wars of religion
Subtitle: selected documents
By: edited and translated by David Potter.
Contributors: Potter, David, 1948-
Series: Documents in history series
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1997
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 274
Subjects: Saint Bartholomewʹs Day, Massacre of, France, 1572 -- Sources.; France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598 -- Sources.; France -- Church history -- 16th century -- Sources.
Description: This book aims - through translations of key documents concerning war, communal religious violence, political confrontation and aristocratic faction - to provide the means to study the French Wars of Religion through most important contemporary sources of the period 1560-1600. The overall theme is the inseparability of religious and political violence during that period.

The 226 documents printed include: key legislative acts of the period, from Edicts concerning religion and toleration in 1560-2 to the 1590s; sources on the forms of religious violence during the early years of conflict; a detailed examination of the interpretative problems raised by the Massacre of Saint Bartholomew; the early years of Henry III and the emergence of the first of the major Catholic Leagues; the breakdown of royal authority in the 1580s and its restoration by Henry IV.

Each section is accompanied by a commentary which guides the reader through the documents translated and there are genealogical tables and maps to accompany them. A guide to further secondary reading in English is provided.
Notes: Translated chiefly from French documents.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 252-262) and index.