The politics of piety : Franciscan preachers during the wars of religion, 1560-1600
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The politics of piety : Franciscan preachers during the wars of religion, 1560-1600
（Changing perspectives in early modern Europe）
University of Rochester Press, 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-270) and index
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The Politics of Piety situates the Franciscan order at the heart of the religious and political conflicts of the late sixteenth century to show how a medieval charismatic religious tradition became an engine of political change. The friars used their redoubtable skills as preachers, intellectual training at the University of Paris, and personal and professional connections with other Catholic reformers and patrons to successfully galvanize popularopposition to the spread of Protestantism throughout the sixteenth century. By 1589, the friars used these same strategies on behalf of the Catholic League to try to prevent the succession of the Protestant heir presumptive, Henryof Navarre, to the French throne.
This book contributes to our understanding of religion as a formative political impulse throughout the sixteenth century by linking the long-term political activism of the friars to the emergence of the French monarchy of the seventeenth century.
Megan C. Armstrong is Associate Professor of History at McMaster University.
Table of Contents
An Age of Spiritual Crisis: The Wars of Religion
Internal Reform and the Revitalization of the Franciscan Mission
The French Franciscan Mission and Ecclesiastical Support
Patronage and Piety
The University of Paris
Political Activism and the Franciscan Body Politic
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