From Defense to Resistance: Justification of Violence During the French Wars of Religion, Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 83, P

by Kathleen A. Parrow

This is a print on demand publication. The right to defend oneself & one's property came into conflict with medieval rulers' attempts to maintain public order. As the French monarchy asserted its claims to sovereignty, the concept of "lese-majeste," or treason, grew, but so did the belief that the king ruled by popular consent for the good of the kingdom. By the late 16th cent., heresy was being seen as a kind of treason, & religious arguments began...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0871698366
• ISBN13: 9780871698360
• Release Date: January 1993
• Publisher: American Philosophical Society Press
• Length: 79 Pages