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By Elizabeth C. Tingle

This examine explores the idea and perform of authority in the course of the later 16th century, within the non secular tradition and political associations of town of Nantes, the place the non secular wars frequently got here to an finish with the good Edict of 1598.

The Wars of faith witnessed severe demanding situations to the authority of the final Valois kings of France. via distinct exam of the municipal and ecclesiastical files of Nantes, the writer considers demanding situations to authority, its renegotiation and reconstruction within the urban in the course of the civil battle interval. The publication surveys the socio-economic buildings of the town, information the expansion of the Protestant church, assesses the influence of sectarian clash and the early counter reform circulation at the Catholic Church, and evaluates the altering political family members of town council with the inhabitants and with the French crown. eventually, Tingle specializes in the Catholic League uprising opposed to the king and the query of why Nantes held out opposed to Henry IV longer than the other French city.

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