One King, One Law, Three Faiths

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One King, One Law, Three Faiths Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz

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Patricia Behre Miskimin

Book Code: GM0728

ISBN: 0-313-30728-8

ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30728-7

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180 pages, map

Greenwood Press

Publication: 12/30/2001

List Price: $110.95 (UK Sterling Price: £65.00)

Availability: In Stock

Media Type: Hardcover

Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4

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Series Title: Contributions to the Study of World History

Series Number: 90

Reviews:

The book is filled with historical details....[T]he methodological aspect of Miskimin's research shows the possibilities of combining microanalysis with macroconclusions.
—The Sixteenth Century Journal Fall 2003

Description: Miskimin's work considers the religious feuding, hostility, and occasional cooperation of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in 17th-century Metz. In a series of pointed chapters, she shows how the French Crown benefited from religious disagreement in the town by using that discord to push through its centralizing political agenda. Despite the disapproval of local leaders and the lack of any ideological commitment to coexistence, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews increasingly developed daily contacts in the city as the century progressed. Though these contacts were often hostile, they nonetheless continued and led to more complex interactions which undercut traditional religious verities. Using numerous examples from local court records, Miskimin explores the multilayered contacts between adherents of these three faiths in one of the only French towns to include this tripartite religious mix during this period. As a result, Metz became a convenient early laboratory for the fundamental intellectual shifts at work in Europe. Building on earlier studies of centralization, this book integrates social and religious history with major political shifts to illustrate the interdependence of members of these three groups, as well as the centrality of their clashes to an understanding of the climate of these turbulent times at the dawn of modernity.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: The Crown Confronts Three Faiths
New Political Realities
The Oath Outside the Gates
Frenchification, Centralization and the Parliament of Metz
Changing Social Relations
An Illusory Stasis: The Jewish Community
A Limited Kinship: The Protestant Community
A Shifting Intellectual Climate
Ritual Murder as Solace: The Case of Raphael Levy
Martin Meurisse: A Catholic Cleric Names his Enemies
Of Victims and Perpetrators: A Community Sculpts its Future
Bibliography
Index

LC Card Number: 2001018025

LCC Class: DC801

Dewey Class: 944


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