One King, One Faith

The Parlement of Paris and the Religious Reformations of the Sixteenth Century

Nancy Lyman Roelker

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Year: 2023
• eBook ISBN: 9780520344952
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: European History
• Index: History

This book, the culmination of a lifelong career in French history, tackles head-on the central question of the French Religious Wars: Why did France prove so consistently hostile and resistant to Protestantism? Distinguished scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker claims that what ultimately motivated the passion and violence of the civil wars was religion. She demonstrates that not only the body politic but also the body social was defined by Gallican Catholicism. Roelker underscores the role the Parlement played in shaping and safeguarding the social, as well as the political, order. Her study is based on extensive research in the correspondence, memoirs, and tracts of mainstream Catholic magistrates as well as dissenters. It creates an overview of the mentalitès of the Parlement, analyzes religious attitudes toward major events of the period, and examines the Parlement's role in the triumph of Henri IV. Along the way, it sheds light on the inner workings of the Parlement and other political institutions, on social structures, and on collective ideas. And above all, this distinguished work brilliantly illuminates the role of religion in society and the state. It will be the definitive work on the subject for many years to come.

This title was originally published in 1996.
This book, the culmination of a lifelong career in French history, tackles head-on the central question of the French Religious Wars: Why did France prove so consistently hostile and resistant to Protestantism? Distinguished scholar Nancy Lyman Roelker cl

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Foreword
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• PART 1 THE MAINSTREAM PARLEMENTAIRE MENTALITÉ
• The Mainstream Parlementaires Who They Were and How They Got There
• 2 Constitutionalism A Nexus of Political-Historical and Professional Values
• 3 Cultural Values
• 4 Social and Personal Values
• PART 2 RELIGION IN THE PARLEMENTAIRE MENTALITE
• 5 Setting the Problem: Religious Values
• 6 Challenge and Response oí the Early Gen eration Mid-1520s to Mid-1530s
• 7 The Engine of Repression The Transitional Generation, 1540-1551
• 8 The Road to Civil War (I): 1555-1561
• 9 The Road to Civil War (2):
• 10 The Crisis Generation in Civil War, 1562- 1582
• PART 3 THE PARLEMENT AND THE LEAGUE, 1585-1594
• 11 The Buildup, 1585 to May 1588
• 12 The Rebellion against the Crown in the Reign of Henri III, May 1588 to August 1,1589
• 13 Terrorism and Reaction, August 1589 to December 1591;
• 14 The Resurrection of the Parlement, 1593- 1594
• EPILOGUE Plus Ça Change 1594-1605
• Hypotheses and Conclusions
• APPENDIX Pierre de L'Estoile as a Documentary Source for Events, 1574-1611
• Glossary
• Select Bibliography
• Index