Tyler Lange

The First French Reformation

Church Reform and the Origins of the Old Regime

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This interpretation of the origins of French absolutism identifies Catholic Church reform as its foundation, and failure of French Protestantism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 310
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. April 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9781107049369
• ISBN-10: 1107049369
• Artikelnr.: 40625630

Autorenporträt

Tyler Lange currently holds a postdoctoral fellowship in the LOEWE Research Focus 'Extrajudicial and Judicial Conflict Resolution', Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt-am-Main. He is a historian of legal doctrine and practice in the late medieval and early modern periods, and his research focuses on political thought, canon law, serfdom, and credit.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the harvest of medieval ecclesiology
1. Law and political culture in late medieval France
2. 'The true Church is in the Kingdom of France'
3. Absolute monarchy and ministerial monarchy, 1515-1526
4. Heresy and the absolute power
5. The practice of sovereignty
Conclusion: the emergence of the Old Regime
Bibliography.