Author: E. William Monter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674488601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This original look at the French Reformation pits immovable object--the French appellate courts or parlements--against irresistible force--the most dynamic forms of the Protestant Reformation. Without the slightest hesitation, the high courts of Renaissance France opposed these religious innovators. By 1540, the French monarchy had largely removed the prosecution of heresy from ecclesiastical courts and handed it to the parlements. Heresy trials and executions escalated dramatically. But within twenty years, the irresistible force had overcome the immovable object: the prosecution of Protestant heresy, by then unworkable, was abandoned by French appellate courts. Until now no one has investigated systematically the judicial history of the French Reformation. William Monter has examined the myriad encounters between Protestants and judges in French parlements, extracting information from abundant but unindexed registers of official criminal decisions both in Paris and in provincial capitals, and identifying more than 425 prisoners condemned to death for heresy by French courts between 1523 and 1560. He notes the ways in which Protestants resisted the French judicial system even before the religious wars, and sets their story within the context of heresy prosecutions elsewhere in Reformation Europe, and within the long-term history of French criminal justice.
Judging the French Reformation
Author: E. William Monter
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674488601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This original look at the French Reformation pits immovable object--the French appellate courts or parlements--against irresistible force--the most dynamic forms of the Protestant Reformation. Without the slightest hesitation, the high courts of Renaissance France opposed these religious innovators. By 1540, the French monarchy had largely removed the prosecution of heresy from ecclesiastical courts and handed it to the parlements. Heresy trials and executions escalated dramatically. But within twenty years, the irresistible force had overcome the immovable object: the prosecution of Protestant heresy, by then unworkable, was abandoned by French appellate courts. Until now no one has investigated systematically the judicial history of the French Reformation. William Monter has examined the myriad encounters between Protestants and judges in French parlements, extracting information from abundant but unindexed registers of official criminal decisions both in Paris and in provincial capitals, and identifying more than 425 prisoners condemned to death for heresy by French courts between 1523 and 1560. He notes the ways in which Protestants resisted the French judicial system even before the religious wars, and sets their story within the context of heresy prosecutions elsewhere in Reformation Europe, and within the long-term history of French criminal justice.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674488601
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
This original look at the French Reformation pits immovable object--the French appellate courts or parlements--against irresistible force--the most dynamic forms of the Protestant Reformation. Without the slightest hesitation, the high courts of Renaissance France opposed these religious innovators. By 1540, the French monarchy had largely removed the prosecution of heresy from ecclesiastical courts and handed it to the parlements. Heresy trials and executions escalated dramatically. But within twenty years, the irresistible force had overcome the immovable object: the prosecution of Protestant heresy, by then unworkable, was abandoned by French appellate courts. Until now no one has investigated systematically the judicial history of the French Reformation. William Monter has examined the myriad encounters between Protestants and judges in French parlements, extracting information from abundant but unindexed registers of official criminal decisions both in Paris and in provincial capitals, and identifying more than 425 prisoners condemned to death for heresy by French courts between 1523 and 1560. He notes the ways in which Protestants resisted the French judicial system even before the religious wars, and sets their story within the context of heresy prosecutions elsewhere in Reformation Europe, and within the long-term history of French criminal justice.
The First French Reformation
Author: Tyler Lange
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107049369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This interpretation of the origins of French absolutism identifies Catholic Church reform as its foundation, and failure of French Protestantism.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107049369
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 315
Book Description
This interpretation of the origins of French absolutism identifies Catholic Church reform as its foundation, and failure of French Protestantism.
Theodore Beza, the Counsellor of the French Reformation, 1519-1605
Author: Henry Martyn Baird
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
The Reformation in France
History of the Protestants of France, from the Commencement of the Reformation ... Translated ... by P. E. Barnes
From the beginning of the French reformation to the edict of January, 1562
Author: Henry Martyn Baird
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 624
Book Description
The French Reformation
Author: Mark Greengrass
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631145165
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The French Reformation seemed well-placed to succeed: there was a vigorous pre-reform movement, an apparent welcome for the work of French-speaking reformers in many quarters despite severe persecution, and the beginnings of a powerful and well-organized church structure. Yet, French protestantism remained the faith only of a minority. This book seeks to understand this apparent contradiction and to explain why protestantism failed to take hold in France.
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
ISBN: 9780631145165
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 108
Book Description
The French Reformation seemed well-placed to succeed: there was a vigorous pre-reform movement, an apparent welcome for the work of French-speaking reformers in many quarters despite severe persecution, and the beginnings of a powerful and well-organized church structure. Yet, French protestantism remained the faith only of a minority. This book seeks to understand this apparent contradiction and to explain why protestantism failed to take hold in France.
History of the Protestant Reformation in France
Author: Anne Marsh-Caldwell
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Protestant Reformation in France, Or, History of the Hugonots
Author: Anne Marsh-Caldwell
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France
Author: Henry Martyn Baird
Publisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 622
Book Description