Noble affinities were the essence of power in sixteenth-century
France. This is the first book to analyse the development of a
noble following during the whole course of the Wars of Religion and
the first substantial study of the Guise - the most powerful family
of the period - to appear for over a century. The Guise, champions
of the catholic cause, were the largest landowners in the province
and used Normandy as a base for their support of catholicism in the
British Isles. The family exploited religious dissension to build a
formidable ultra-catholic party in Normandy which ultimately
challenged the monarchy. This study breaks new ground by
illuminating the relationship between high politics and popular
confessional solidarities, especially the rise of radical
catholicism. It exploits new archival sources to consider all
groups in political society, reinterpreting court politics and
discussing groups usually excluded from the traditional political
narrative, such as the peasantry.
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