Between crown and community
Subtitle: politics and civic culture in sixteenth-century Poitiers
By: Hilary J. Bernstein.
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Ithica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
Subjects: Poitiers (France) -- History -- 16th century.; Poitiers (France) -- Politics and government -- 16th century.; France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598.
Other titles: Politics and civic culture in sixteenth-century Poitiers.
Description: "The sixteenth century was an important period of transition in France, during which antagonistic religious beliefs led to prolonged civil wars and a growing state apparatus competed with medieval notions of political authority and the social order. Poitiers, a midsized provincial capital, actively experienced these tensions. Early known as a center of Reformed belief, it became a stronghold of ultra-Catholic sentiment by 1575. In examining sixteenth-century Poitiers, Hilary J. Bernstein argues that civic governments and the French monarchy enjoyed a mutually beneficial and reinforcing relationship rather than an antagonistic one; that disparate urban groups shared a political language for defining the identity and interests of the city that helped to balance the exclusive nature of urban government; and that French provincial cities did not suffer inevitable decline at the hands of the developing state but, instead, continued to help define the nature of early modern political culture."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]306) and index.
Based on the author's thesis (Ph. D.--Princeton University, 1996) presented under the title: Politics and civic culture in sixteenth-century Poitiers.