Publication

1999 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

81,000 words, Guess

Page Count

324 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL34988M
  • ISBN-100674488601
  • OCLC Control Number40821050
  • Library of Congress Control Number99019419
  • LibraryThing3658148
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  • Goodreads2754221

Classifications

  • DDC345.44/0288
  • LCCKJV129.H47 M66 1999

Description

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryReformationTrials (Heresy)Reformation -- FranceParlements (French courts)France, history, 16th centuryHeresies and heretics, modern period, 1500-

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