Preface
1: Defeat and Reformation
2: Comprehending Passions
3: The Estates of Blois
4: The Chemin de la Paix
5: Dissent in the Country
6: The Perfection of Peace
7: France through the Looking Glass
8: Restoring Virtue
9: The Assembly of Notables
10: Conclusion
Bibliography
Mark Greengrass specializes in the history of Renaissance France. He has published on the history of the Reformation, particularly in its French context, for which he has been twice awarded the Nancy Lyman Roelker prize by the American Society for Sixteenth Century Studies. He is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Sheffield and is currently writing Volume V of the new Penguin History of Europe (Europe Reformed, 1517-1648).
Deeply researched and elegantly written.
*European History Quarterly*
...this diverse and sophisticated dissection of a lost intellectual
age offers a sympathetic portrait of the reforming initiatives and
that characterised this understudied decade
*Andrew Pettegree, The English Historical Review*
An ambitious and most welcome appraisal of the bereaucratic and
intellectual worlds inhabited by France's governing elites during
the middle decade of the Wars of Religion... A significant piece of
scholarship.
*Kevin Gould, French History.*
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