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Governing Passions - Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585 (Hardcover)
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Governing Passions - Peace and Reform in the French Kingdom, 1576-1585 (Hardcover)
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The French kingdom dissolved into civil wars, known as the "wars of
religion," for a generation from 1562 to 1598. This book examines
the reactions of France's governing groups to that experience.
Their major political endeavour was securing peace. They attempted
to achieve it through a religious pluralism not envisaged in any
other state on this scale in this period. Its achievement would
only be fulfilled, however, alongside a reform of the kingdom's
institutions and society. Peace and reform went hand in hand --a
moral agenda for restoration.
France's notables drew on reservoirs of classical and Christian
moral philosophy and wisdom to find practical answers to the
difficult problems of governance that confronted them. The
resulting public introspection and vocal debates are difficult to
match anywhere else in Europe at this time. They were an essential
part of the profound sense of crisis that France's governing elites
experienced during the later sixteenth century.
Drawing extensively on manuscript and printed sources not hitherto
examined, this book analyses for the first time the debates at the
Estates General of Blois (1576-7) and the Assembly of Notables at
Saint-Germain-en-Laye of 1583-4. It shows the French polity in a
fresh light, presenting major issues of political thought in their
public and practical context. And it re-examines the crucial and
little-understood reign of Henri III, the last Valois king,
suggesting how Bourbon France could have emerged very differently
from the civil wars of the late sixteenth century.
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