Sedition : the spread of controversial literature and ideas in France and Scotland, c. 1550-1610 / edited by John O'Brien and Marc Schachter.
| Other author | O'Brien, John, 1954- editor. |
| Other author | Schachter, Marc D. editor. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Turnhout, Belgium : Brepols, 2021. |
| Copyright Date | ©2021 |
| Description | 324 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Late medieval and early modern studies, 2406-5463 ; volume 28 Late medieval and early modern studies ; v. 28. ^A1010160 |
| Contents | Sedition : from disobedience to revolt / John O'Brien and Marc Schachter -- La sédition pendant les guerres civiles (France, 1560-1600) : une histoire sans événement / Paul-Alexis Mellet -- The language of religious conflict : seditions, assemblies, emotions, violences... / George Hoffmann -- Heresy and sedition in Pierre de Ronsard's Discours des misères de ce temps (1562) and Pierre Boton's La France divisée (c. 1595) / Andrea Frisch -- The role of John Knox and his seditious writings in the outbreak of the French wars of religion / Éric Durot -- Cicero the revolutionary : some seditious motifs in the literature of the French wars of religion / John O'Brien -- 'Books with sharp teeth' : the perception of seditious books in early modern France / Natalia Wawrzyniak -- How not to be (and sound) seditious : the Prince de Condé's justifications for starting the first war of religion (1562-63) / Ulrich Langer -- Political crime in the wars of religion : François Brigard's sedition / Tom Hamilton -- The Sempill ballats : gendering sedition and rebellion / Armel Dubois-Nayt -- The seditious pleasures of the prince in the Reville-matin's denunciation of tyranny / Marc Schachter -- Styling sedition of The island of hermaphrodites (L'Isle des hermaphrodites, 1605) / Kathleen Long -- The several faces of sedition / Marc Greengrass (with Dénes Harai). |
| Summary | This interdisciplinary collection examines the notion of sedition in the period of the French Wars of Religion (1560-600) and focuses not only on France itself, but also on Scotland during the reign of the French-born Mary Queen of Scots. Composed of eleven chapters written by an international team of experts, this volume concentrates on the political aspects of sedition rather than religious heresy, and covers writings and publications in a wide range of fields: politics, history, law, literature, and gender. A complementary feature of this collection is the spectrum of writings studied; they include edicts and treatises, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dialogues, and satirical prose and poetry. Several chapters also address visual representations of sedition. An Introduction and a Conclusion provide synthetic analyses of the material studied in the individual chapters. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Language | Chiefly in English; one contribution in French with an English summary. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| ISBN | 9782503589909 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 2503589901 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | (electronic book) |