Documents in History
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This book aims - through translations of key documents concerning communal religious violence, political confrontation and war - to provide the means to study the French Wars of Religion through the most important contemporary sources.
Documents include: key legislative acts of the period from the edicts concerning religion and toleration in 1560-62 to the 1590s; sources on types of religious violence during the early years of the wars; a detailed examination of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew; and the breakdown of royal authority in the 1580s and its restoration by Henry IV.
Each section is accompanied by a commentary which guides the reader through the documents translated.
Documents include: key legislative acts of the period from the edicts concerning religion and toleration in 1560-62 to the 1590s; sources on types of religious violence during the early years of the wars; a detailed examination of the massacre of Saint Bartholomew; and the breakdown of royal authority in the 1580s and its restoration by Henry IV.
Each section is accompanied by a commentary which guides the reader through the documents translated.
This new reader brings together in annotated form and explanatory introductions, 80 speeches, declarations, memorandums, programmes, plans, resolutions and (extracts from) treaties, covering the period from 1929 (Briand Memorandum) to 1995 (Mitterrand's speech to the European Parliament). Together, and in connection, they present a clear picture of the most important economic and political developments within the European Community and the present-day European Union. This edition is based on annotated original texts, preceded and clarified by explanatory introductions.