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The Counts of Laval - Culture, Patronage and Religion in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Counts of Laval - Culture, Patronage and Religion in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century France (Hardcover, New Ed)
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The Lavals were one of the most important families in late medieval
France, rising to a position of unsurpassed eminence by the mid
sixteenth century. Yet, at the very point where they reached this
position of unrivalled importance, all was put at risk by the dual
challenges of dynastic failure and the Reformation. The vagaries of
dynastic failure threatened their hard won success and these
problems were compounded by the decision of crucial members of the
family to support Protestantism in the middle of the century. By
the end of the sixteenth century the fortunes of the family were in
ruins and the brief eminence of Lavals in western France was over.
This monograph offers a fresh look at several of the critical
questions facing historians of late medieval and early modern
France. It re-examines the clientage of a rising and enterprising
family and explores the cultural patronage of a noble court. The
book also provides a new insight into the nature of noble
Protestantism, notably analysing the connections between nobles,
patterns of family loyalty and religious conviction. Finally, it
considers the events of wars of religion in western France from the
perspective of a noble leadership that simultaneously played a
vital role in sustaining the cause and did much to undermine it.
This latter issue is examined in particular through the analysis of
the relationship between the houses of Laval and Rohan, two
Protestant families with shared loyalties but with rival dynastic
ambitions. This study is based on a complete re-examination of the
archive base in both Paris and the west of France and in English
archives. For many centuries the destruction of the archives of the
family of Laval during the French Revolution has prevented
historians from undertaking a serious study of the family. Indeed,
this book is the first monograph to be published on the Comtes de
Laval since the manuscript volume written by Le Blanc de La Vignole
in the seventeenth century. At the same time it engages with the
historiography of both French and Anglo-Saxon historiographical
traditions.
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