Renaissance and Reformation France

Mack P. Holt is Professor of History at George Mason University. His work has won prizes from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, the National Huguenot Society, and the Southern Historical Association. He has served on the editorial board of French Historical Studies, and in 1999 was the president of the Society for French Historical Studies. He has previously taught at Harvard and Vanderbilt universities.

• Introduction ; 1. The Kingdom of France in the Sixteenth Century ; 2. The Economy ; 3. Social Groups and Cultural Practices ; 4. Gender and the Family ; 5. Religion and the Sacred ; 6. The Wars of Religion ; 7. Religious Co-existence and Catholic Renewal ; 8. Redrawing Lines of Authority ; Conclusion ; Further Reading ; Chronology ; Maps

this book represents a welcome contribution to the existing literature...recent scholarship is effectively incorporated into a fluent and accessible narrative. Above all the volume displays a remarkable coherence, in part because of the decision to focus on the sixteenth-century wars of religion, and the prominence given to religion more generally...this volume is set to become a standard text for any course on the period' Penny Roberts, University of Warwick, History