Renaissance and Revolt : Essays in the Intellectual and Social History of Early Modern France (Paperback)

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Humanism, Stoicism, and Interest of State: 1. Cicero and Tacitus in sixteenth-century France; 2. Protestant jurists and theologians in early modern France: the family of Cappel; 3. French satire in the late sixteenth century; 4. Rohan and interest of state; Part II. Sovereignty, Resistance, and Christian obedience: 5. Bodin and the monarchomachs; 6. An alternative theory of popular resistance: Buchanan, Rossaeus, and Locke; 7. Gallicanism and Anglicanism in the age of the Counter-Reformation; Part III. Structures and Fissures: 8. Venality of office and popular sedition in seventeenth-century France; 9. Peasant revolt in Vivarais, 1575?1580; 10. The Paris Sixteen, 1584?1594: the social analysis of a revolutionary movement; 11. The Audijos revolt: provincial liberties and institutional rivalries under Louis XIV; Index.