Season of Conspiracy
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Season of Conspiracy

Calvin, the French Reformed Churches, and Protestant Plotting in the Reign of Francis II (1559-60), Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 108, Part 5)

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Season of Conspiracy

Calvin, the French Reformed Churches, and Protestant Plotting in the Reign of Francis II (1559-60), Transactions, American Philosophical Society (Vol. 108, Part 5)

About this book

This volume considers the March 1560 conspiracy of Amboise and subsequent plots devised later that year to remove the young King Francis II from the sway of his chief advisors of the house of Guise and improve the legal situation of France's Protestant movement. New and rediscovered evidence reveals the conspiracies to have been more closely linked to the network of Reformed churches within France and to John Calvin in Geneva than previously understood. The results compel a reconsideration not only of events that are often said to have constituted the first act of the French Wars of Religion, but also of Calvin's political engagement and sagacity.

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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Abbreviations
  3. Preface
  4. 1. Introduction
  5. 2. The Weight of Past Historiography and the State of the Question
  6. First Reports from the Crown and Foreign Ambassadors
  7. Early Protestant Apologias and Denials
  8. The Revelations of Pierre de La Place and Louis Régnier de La Planche
  9. New Discoveries, Limited Impact
  10. Amed6e Roget, Âżmile Doumergue, and Alphonse de Ruble
  11. Lucien Romier and the Question of English Complicity
  12. Henri Naef, Alain Dufour, and the Geneva Connection
  13. Recent Work
  14. 3. The Testimony of Gilles Triou
  15. 4. From Amboise to Lyon
  16. 5. From Lyon to Orléans
  17. 6. Conspirators from Geneva: Men and Motives
  18. 7. Conclusion: Rethinking the Nature and Significance of the Plotting of 1560
  19. Appendix. The Deposition of Gilles Triou
  20. Index