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Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion (Hardcover)
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Political Thought in the French Wars of Religion (Hardcover)
Series: Ideas in Context
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Through its close, critical reading of the political treatises and
polemical literature produced in France in the sixteenth century,
this book offers a valuable new contribution to the intellectual
history of the Early Modern era. Sophie Nicholls analyses the
political thought of the theologians and jurists in the Holy League
as they pursued their crusade against heresy in the French kingdom,
during the wars of religion (1562-1629). Contemporaries portrayed
the Leaguers as rebellious anarchists, who harboured dangerously
democratic ideas. In contrast, Nicholls demonstrates that the
intellectuals in the movement were devoted royalists, who had more
in common with their moderate counterparts, the 'politiques'. In
paying close attention to the conceptual language of politics in
this era, this book shows how jurists and theologians in the League
presented visions of sovereignty that subtly replenished medieval
ideas of kingship and priesthood, and endeavoured to replace them
with a new synthesis of intellectual tradition and political power.
In a period when 'the state' was still emerging as an idea,
analysing League thought in the context of Jesuit and Second
Scholastic sources positions the Leaguers in relation to innovative
attempts in European Catholic circles to re-think the nature of
belonging to a political community.
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