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Judging the French Reformation : Heresy Trials by Sixteenth-Century Parlements
Judging the French Reformation Heresy Trials by SixteenthCentury Parlements Author:William Monter This fresh angle on 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, escalating the number of heresy trials and execu... more »tions dramatically. Monter notes the ways in which Protestants resisted the French judicial system even before the religious wars, and sets their story within the context of heresy prosecutions elsewhere in Reformation Europe, and within the long-term history of French criminal justice.« less