Judging the French Reformation: Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements

by William Monter

This original look at the French Reformation pits immovable object--the French appellate courts or parlements--against irresistible force--the most dynamic forms of the Protestant Reformation. Without the slightest hesitation, the high courts of Renaissance France opposed these religious innovators. By 1540, the French monarchy had largely removed the prosecution of heresy from ecclesiastical courts and handed it to the parlements. Heresy trials...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674488601
• ISBN13: 9780674488601
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.37 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.3" x 9.5"