Governing Passions: Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585

by Mark Greengrass

The French kingdom dissolved into civil wars, known as the "wars of religion", for a generation from 1562 to 1598. This book examines the reactions of France's governing groups to that experience. Their major political endeavour was securing peace. They attempted to achieve it through a religious pluralism not envisaged in any other state on this scale in this period. Its achievement would only be fulfilled, however, alongside a reform of the kingdom's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199214905
• ISBN13: 9780199214907
• Release Date: December 2007
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.5" x 9.3"