Noble Power During the French Wars of Religion : The Guise Affinity and the Catholic Cause in Normandy

Stuart Carroll
Cambridge University Press
9780521023870
0-521-02387-4

Noble affinities were the essence of power in sixteenth-century France. This is the first book to analyze the development of a noble following during the whole course of the Wars of Religion. The Guise.

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were one of the greatest families of Christendom and this is the first substantial work on them for a century. In Normandy, a stronghold of Protestantism, they built a formidable ultra-Catholic party that ultimately challenged the monarchy. This book breaks new ground by discussing all groups in political society, from international dynastic politics to peasant revolt.