Religious Concord and Political Tolerance in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth- Century France

Bibliographic Data

ID16618336
AuthorsMario Turchetti (University of Fribourg, corresponding author)
Year1991
Volume22
Issue1
Pages15-25
Publication date1991-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueSixteenth Century Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0361-0160 • E-ISSN: 2326-0726
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2307/2542013
OpenAlexW218721021
LanguageEN
Citations received11

The author analyzes the two historiographic concepts of concord and tolerance as revealed in theological and political debates in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In particular, an examination of legislative texts from 1560 up to 1685 reveals a kind of alternation between two attitudes of the government: a measure of relative toleration of Protestant worship would be followed periodically by a measure of concord or religious reunification under Roman Catholic supervision (the revocation of the Edict of Nantes is the most important). In spite of their similarity, concord and tolerance possessed different historiographic meanings and led to political programs that were quite different from each other and sometimes even opposed. In the work of historiographic explanation it is essential that historians distinguish clearly different types of concord and tolerance

Political science · Politics · European Political History Analysis · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · History · Law · Reformation and Early Modern Christianity

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