A01=Lisa Ferraro Parmelee
Archpriest Controversy
Author_Lisa Ferraro Parmelee
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Constancy
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Henri IV
John Wolfe
Richard Bancroft
Stuart Absolutism
Succession
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- ISBN 9781878822659
- Weight: 472g
- Dimensions: 386 x 579mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 1996
- Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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An exploration of the importation of French political thought into England during the last decades of Elizabeth's reign.
The French Religious Wars generated a large body of political propaganda from the Huguenots, the Politiques (a Huguenot-Catholic confederacy) and the Catholic League. Dr. Parmelee discusses how, in the last decades of the reign ofElizabeth I some 130 translated documents were imported into England, most of them - originating from the Politiques, written in support of the Protestant Henry of Navarre's accession to the French throne-advocating religious tolerance as a way to peace. She argues that while most English political thinkers did not openly embrace or articulate the absolutist ideas often expressed in these writings, they had a wide impact on political discourse in the lateElizabethan period. They were useful against foreign enemies, Catholic recusants and Presbyterians, but particularly, in a time of fear of civil war engendered by an unsettled succession, they helped to establish an intellectualclimate conducive to the later development of Stuart absolutism.
Dr. Lisa Ferraro Parmelee teaches in the Department of History at Villanova University.
