The Politics of Religion in Early Modern France

by Joseph Bergin

Rich in detail and broad in scope, this majestic book is the first to reveal the interaction of politics and religion in France during the crucial years of the long seventeenth century. Joseph Bergin begins with the Wars of Religion, which proved to be longer and more violent in France than elsewhere in Europe and left a legacy of unresolved tensions between church and state with serious repercussions for each. He then draws together a series of unresolved...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300207697
• ISBN13: 9780300207699
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.6"