List of figures; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations and translations; Units of currency and measurement in Dijon; Introduction; Part I. Burgundy after the Valois Dukes (1477 to ca.1560); 1. Guarding the gospels: elections and politics; 2. Protected by the Virgin Mary: lay religious experiences; 3. Beasts in the vines: wine and material life; Part II. The Wars of Religion in Burgundy (ca.1550 to 1595); 4. The reformation in Burgundy; 5. Origins of the Catholic League in Burgundy; 6. Collapse of the League in Burgundy; Part III. From Foy de Bourgogne to Absolute Monarchy (1595 to 1630); 7. The contraction of popular politics and Catholic reform; 8. The crown, the magistrates, and the people: the Lanturelu Riot of 1630; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
Explores how workers in the local wine industry helped shape local politics and turn back Protestantism in early modern Burgundy.
Mack P. Holt is Professor of History at George Mason University, Virginia. From 1998 to 1999 he served as Co-President of the Society for French Historical Studies, and from 2009 to 2011 as the President of the Society for Reformation Research. In 2005 and 2014, he was a Visiting Professor of History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, and in 2018 a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.
'This beautiful book makes Dijon an observation post for the
profound transformations that affected the entire kingdom in the
sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. And we are in debt to its
author for having the knowledge to guide the reader with the
clarity and pedagogy of a master.' Jérôme Loiseau, Translated from
Annales de Bourgogne
'This is a compelling and detailed study which surveys a
significant period in French history from the perspective of the
province of Burgundy and its vignerons …' Noelle Plack, European
History Quarterly
'Mack Holt, in this tightly written and long-matured work, bases
his conclusions on a profound knowledge of the Archives municipales
of Dijon, one of the best preserved in France, as well as on a wide
range of visual, literary, and narrative sources. In doing so, he
deploys a deep knowledge of the city and its culture, interweaving
an analysis of public institutions with a study of social
structures and of material culture to construct a portrait of a
whole society through serious upheavals and challenges.' David
Potter, Renaissance Quarterly
'Holt provides a fine and detailed narrative of the political life
of a significant and somewhat unusual city through an eventful
century and a half …' Jotham Parsons, The Journal of Modern History
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