1st Edition
Hatred in Print Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity During the French Wars of Religion
By Luc Racaut
Copyright 2002
176 Pages
by
Routledge
176 Pages
by
Routledge
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Catholic polemical works, and their portrayal of Protestants in print in particular, are the central focus of this work. In contrast with Germany, French Catholics used printing effectively and agressively to promote the Catholic cause. In seeking to explain why France remained a Catholic country, the French Catholic response must be taken into account. Rather than confront the Reformation on... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Print, censorship, and the vernacular during the French Wars of Religion; The problem of violence during the French Wars of Religion; Polemic, debate and opinion forming in 16th-century France; The use of the 'blood libel' on the eve of the French Wars of Religion; Accusations of insurrection and Protestant responses; The 'world turned upside down', the femmelettes and the French Wars of Religion; The polemical use of the Albigensian Crusade; The Albigensians as Protestant martyrs; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.
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Racaut, Luc
'Valuable in itself, Hatred in Print also suggests many avenues for further research.' Seventeenth-Century News 'Clearly written, carefully researched, and judiciously argued... succeeds at the same time in opening a new and important avenue of research in the field...' H-France Reviews '... [this] careful analysis of Catholic propaganda reminds us again how broadly conceived the religious 'other' was in early modern France and how important these images could be to the construction of Protestant identity down to the 20th century.' Huguenot Society Proceedings '...[this] book, based on a vast number of printed texts, is an important contribution to the growing literature on sixteenth-century French Catholicism and its response to the Protestant challenge.' The Catholic Historical Review '... a useful contribution to sixteenth-century propaganda studies. Its citations, notes, and bibliography are especially helpful.' Sixteenth Century Journal 'As a story of the consequences of unrelenting bigotry, this lucid account takes some beating.' Archiv für Reformationsgeschichte
