Martyrs and Murderers
The Guise Family and the Making of Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9737737 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M P Holt (George Mason University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 125 |
| Issue | 515 |
| Pages | 984-986 |
| Publication date | 2010-07-26 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The English Historical Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0013-8266 • E-ISSN: 1477-4534 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/ehr/ceq229 |
| OpenAlex | W1992323693 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
Stuart Carroll has written Martyrs and Murderers for several different audiences. For scholars and specialists the book is a useful summary and synthesis of a good deal of original research—much of it undertaken by Carroll himself—on three generations of the Guise family in the sixteenth century. The principal narrative for specialists is how much all three generations of Guises—Claude, François, and Henri I—were motivated by concern and anxiety over the survival of their dynasty, both personal and material, during a very troubled period of European history. While the more traditional motives of bloodfeud with Coligny, personal animosity against King Henri III and Henri de Navarre, and militant Catholic hostility to all forms of Protestantism are clearly present in Carroll's account, he argues convincingly that these motives must be placed in the larger context of anxiety over their family's fortunes in Europe, where they saw themselves as the equals of the Valois, Bourbon, and Habsburg dynasties in the period
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| Citations per year | 0.33 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2014 - 2021 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |