Table of Contents

Contents: Introduction, Barry Coward and Julian Swann; Detecting the ultimate conspiracy, or how Waldensians became witches, Wolfgang Behringer; Conspiracy and its prosecution in Italy, 1500-50: violent responses to violent solutions, Kate Lowe; Huguenot conspiracies, real and imagined, in 16th century France, Penny Roberts; Vengeance and conspiracy during the French Wars of Religion, Stuart Carroll; 'The monarchical republic of Elizabeth I' revisited (by its victims) as a conspiracy, Peter Lake; The paranoid prelate: Archbishop Laud and the puritan plot, Jason Peacey; The closest bond: conspiracy in 17th century French tragedy, Malina Stefanovska; Faults on both sides: the conspiracies of party politics under the Later Stuarts, Mark Knights; 'Popery at St. James's': the conspiracy theses of William Payne, Thomas Hollis, and Lord George Gordon, Colin Haydon; Conspiracy and political practice from the ancien régime to the French Revolution, Peter Campbell; Burke and the conspiratorial origins of the French Revolution: some Anglo-French resemblances, Nigel Aston; 'The Tartuffes of patriotism': fears of conspiracy in the political language of revolutionary government, France 1793-94, Marisa Linton; The 'foreign plot' and the French Revolution: a reappraisal, Munro Price; Index.

About the Author

Barry Coward, Birkbeck College, UK and Julian Swann, Birkbeck College, UK Barry Coward, Julian Swann, Wolfgang Behringer, Kate Lowe, Penny Roberts, Stuart Carroll, Peter Lake, Jason Peacey, Malina Stefanovska, Mark Knights, Colin Haydon, Peter Campbell, Nigel Aston, Marisa Linton, Munro Price.

Reviews

'These fascinating essays, through their respective declensions of the theme of conspiracy, successfully impress upon the reader the importance of this mode of discourse for understanding the politics of early modern Europe.' History '... lively and stimulating...The volume should find a place on reading lists for comparative courses on early modern cultural and political history.' Sixteenth Century Journal