Author: Joseph Lyndel Bowler
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 164

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Author: Kathleen Wellman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300178859
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 449

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Tells the history of the French Renaissance through the lives of its most prominent queens and mistresses.

Author: Anne Dunan-Page
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351145541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 228

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Recent years have witnessed a revival of interest in the history of the Huguenots, and new research has increased our understanding of their role in shaping the early-modern world. Yet while much has been written about the Huguenots during the sixteenth-century wars of religion, much less is known about their history in the following centuries. The ten essays in this collection provide the first broad overview of Huguenot religious culture from the Restoration of Charles II to the outbreak of the French Revolution. Dealing primarily with the experiences of Huguenots in England and Ireland, the volume explores issues of conformity and nonconformity, the perceptions of 'refuge', and Huguenot attitudes towards education, social reform and religious tolerance. Taken together they offer the most comprehensive and up-to-date survey of Huguenot religious identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

Author: Henry M. Baird
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN:
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 233

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This 2004 Wipf & Stock edition of The Huguenots and Henry of Navarre by Henry Baird is a digital facsimile of the original 1896 edition published by Kegan Paul, Trench & Company

Author: Estelle Paranque
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3030015297
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 243

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This book examines the first thirty years of Elizabeth I’s reign from the perspective of the Valois kings, Charles IX and Henri III of France. Estelle Paranque sifts through hundreds of French letters and ambassadorial reports to construct a fuller picture of early modern Anglo-French relations, highlighting key events such as the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, the imprisonment and execution of Mary, Queen of Scots, and the victory of England over the Spanish Armada in 1588. By drawing on a wealth of French sources, she illuminates the French royal family’s shifting perceptions of Elizabeth I and suggests new conclusions about her reign.

Author: Henry M. Baird
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752322586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414

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Reproduction of the original: History of the Rise of the Huguenots by Henry M. Baird

Author: Samuel Smiles
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Huguenots
Languages : en
Pages : 460

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Author: Nancy Goldstone
Publisher: Little, Brown
ISBN: 0316409677
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 518

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The riveting true story of mother-and-daughter queens Catherine de' Medici and Marguerite de Valois, whose wildly divergent personalities and turbulent relationship changed the shape of their tempestuous and dangerous century. Set in magnificent Renaissance France, this is the story of two remarkable women, a mother and daughter driven into opposition by a terrible betrayal that threatened to destroy the realm. Catherine de' Medici was a ruthless pragmatist and powerbroker who dominated the throne for thirty years. Her youngest daughter Marguerite, the glamorous "Queen Margot," was a passionate free spirit, the only adversary whom her mother could neither intimidate nor control. When Catherine forces the Catholic Marguerite to marry her Protestant cousin Henry of Navarre against her will, and then uses her opulent Parisian wedding as a means of luring his followers to their deaths, she creates not only savage conflict within France but also a potent rival within her own family. Rich in detail and vivid prose, Goldstone's narrative unfolds as a thrilling historical epic. Treacherous court politics, poisonings, international espionage, and adultery form the background to a story that includes such celebrated figures as Elizabeth I, Mary, Queen of Scots, and Nostradamus. The Rival Queens is a dangerous tale of love, betrayal, ambition, and the true nature of courage, the echoes of which still resonate.

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Languages : en
Pages : 814

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Author: David Carnegie A. Agnew
Publisher:
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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