Week 1: France in 1560

 
Contexts:

• David Potter, A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State (1995)
• Mack P. Holt (ed.), Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648 (2002)
• Mack P. Holt, The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (1995; 2nd edn 2005), chap. 1
• Robert J. Knecht, The French Civil Wars, 1562-1598 (2000), chaps. 1-3
• Robert J. Knecht, The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France, 1483-1610 (1996), esp. chaps. 1 & 17
• J.H.M. Salmon, Society in Crisis: France in the Sixteenth Century (1975), part I
• Henry Heller, Iron and Blood: Civil Wars in Sixteenth-Century France (1991), chap. 1
• F.J. Baumgartner, France in the Sixteenth Century (1995), parts I & II
• Janine Garrisson, A History of Sixteenth-Century France, 1483-1598: Renaissance, Reformation and Rebellion (1995), parts I & II
• Arlette Jouanna et al, Histoire et dictionnaire des guerres de religion (1998)

On Monarchy:

• David Potter, A History of France, 1460-1560: The Emergence of a Nation State (1995), esp. chaps. 1-3
• Mack P. Holt (ed.), Renaissance and Reformation France, 1500-1648 (2002), chap. 1
• J.R. Major, From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy: French Kings, Nobles and Estates (1994), chaps. 1-3
• E. Le Roy Ladurie, The French Royal State, 1460-1610 (1993)
• R.J. Knecht, The French Wars of Religion, 1559-1598 (2nd edn, 1996), chap. 2
• David Parker, The Making of French Absolutism (1983), chap. 1
• Richard A. Jackson, Vive le Roi! A History of the French Coronation from Charles V to Charles X (1984)
• Ralph E. Giesey, The Royal Funeral Ceremony in Renaissance France (1960)
• Penny Roberts, 'The Kingdom's Two Bodies? Corporeal Rhetoric and Royal Authority during the Religious Wars', French History, 21 (2007), 147-64
• Claude de Seyssel, The Monarchy of France (1515; modern edn, 1981)
• Jean Bodin, Six Books of the Commonwealth/Six livres de la République (1576; various modern edns)
• Colette Beaune, Naissance de la nation France (1985)