Martyrs and murderers : the Guise family and the making of Europe

Author(s)

• Carroll, Stuart

Bibliographic Information

Martyrs and murderers : the Guise family and the making of Europe

Stuart Carroll

Oxford University Press, 2009

• : hbk

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

The pre-eminent political and religious power-brokers of sixteenth-century France, the Guises family included in their number both Mary Queen of Scots and Catherine de Medici. This is the first comprehensive account of their remarkable story, and their influence on one of Europe's most turbulent and formative eras.

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Details

• NCID: BB00533648
• ISBN:
  • 9780199229079
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xiv, 345 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • DC22 : 944.0290922
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Guise, House of
  • LCSH : Nobility -- France -- Biography
  • LCSH : Nobility -- France -- Political activity
  • LCSH : France -- History -- Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598