Cornel Zwierlein
The Political Thought of the French League and Rome (1585-1589)
De justa populi gallici ab Henrico tertio defectione and De justa Henrici tertii abdicatione (Jean Boucher, 1589)
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See product| Auteur | Cornel Zwierlein |
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| Editeur | Librairie Droz S.A. |
| Distributeur | Association de Boccard |
Since the nineteenth century, the political thought of the French Catholic League (1585-1595) has been considered to be mere plagiarism of Calvinist monarchomach texts written after the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre (1572). Based on the original manuscript of the most important Leagueist treatise, composed by the Sorbonne for the Council of the Sixteen and for Mayenne, and sent to Pope Sixtus V in March 1589, this book shows that the real traditions in which the Leagueist thought was rooted a
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