This volume considers the March 1560 conspiracy of Amboise and subsequent plots devised later that year to remove the young King Francis II from the sway of his chief advisors of the house of Guise and improve the legal situation of France's Protestant movement. New and rediscovered evidence reveals the conspiracies to have been more closely linked to the network of Reformed churches within France and to John Calvin in Geneva than previously understood. The results compel a reconsideration not only of events that are often said to have constituted the first act of the French Wars of Religion, but also of Calvin's political engagement and sagacity.
| ISBN: | 9781606180853 |
| Publication date: | 4th January 2024 |
| Author: | Philip Benedict |
| Publisher: | American Philosophical Society an imprint of American Philosophical Society Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 277 pages |
| Series: | Transactions of the American Philosophical Society |
| Genres: |
European history |