The French Religious Wars 15621598
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
The French Religious Wars 15621598
By (Author) Robert Jean Knecht
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Osprey Publishing
19th June 2002
United Kingdom
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
Early modern warfare (including gunpowder warfare)
Religious intolerance, persecution and conflict
944.028
Physical Properties
Paperback
96
Width 170mm, Height 248mm, Spine 7mm
330g
Description
The eight French Wars of Religion began in 1562 and lasted for 36 years. Although the wars were fought between Catholics and Protestants, this books draws out in full the equally important struggle for power between the king and the leading nobles, and the rivalry between the nobles themselves as they vied for control of the king. In a time when human life counted for little, the destruction reached its height in the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre when up to 10,000 Protestants lost their lives.
Author Bio
Robert J. Knecht is Emeritus Professor of French History at the University of Birmingham, where he taught from 1956 until 1994. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, he has been Chairman of the Society for the Study of French History and of the Society of Renaissance Studies. He has written extensively on sixteenth-century France, especially the reign of Francis I. His latest book is The French Civil Wars (London, Pearson, 2000).
