Mack P. Holt

The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France

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Produktbeschreibung

Explores how workers in the local wine industry helped shape local politics and turn back Protestantism in early modern Burgundy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 370
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. September 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 688g
• ISBN-13: 9781108471886
• ISBN-10: 1108471889
• Artikelnr.: 51968138

Autorenporträt

Mack P. Holt is Professor of History at George Mason University, Virginia. From 1998 to 1999 he served as Co-President of the Society for French Historical Studies, and from 2009 to 2011 as the President of the Society for Reformation Research. In 2005 and 2014, he was a Visiting Professor of History at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes in Paris, and in 2018 a Visiting Fellow Commoner at Trinity College, University of Cambridge.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations and translations
Units of currency and measurement in Dijon
Introduction
Part I. Burgundy after the Valois Dukes (1477 to ca.1560)
1. Guarding the gospels: elections and politics
2. Protected by the Virgin Mary: lay religious experiences
3. Beasts in the vines: wine and material life
Part II. The Wars of Religion in Burgundy (ca.1550 to 1595)
4. The reformation in Burgundy
5. Origins of the Catholic League in Burgundy
6. Collapse of the League in Burgundy
Part III. From Foy de Bourgogne to Absolute Monarchy (1595 to 1630)
7. The contraction of popular politics and Catholic reform
8. The crown, the magistrates, and the people: the Lanturelu Riot of 1630
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.