• Political thought in the French Wars of religion[electronic resource] /
  • 紀錄類型: 書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
    杜威分類號: 320.094409031
    書名/作者: Political thought in the French Wars of religion/ Sophie Nicholls.
    作者: Nicholls, Sophie.
    出版者: Cambridge : : Cambridge University Press,, 2021.
    面頁冊數: xiii, 269 p. : : ill., digital ;; 24 cm.
    附註: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
    標題: France - Social life and customs - 21st century.
    ISBN: 9781108887786
    ISBN: 9781108840781
    摘要、提要註: 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 positi
    電子資源: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108887786
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