Sedition: The Spread of Controversial Literature and Ideas in France and Scotland, c. 1550-1610 (Late Medieval and Early Modern Studies, 28) (English and French Edition)

This interdisciplinary collection examines the notion of sedition in the period of the French Wars of Religion (1560-1600) 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. This is a collection which will appeal to readers with interests in the history of political ideas and thought, the comparative study of monarchical government, and concepts of tyranny and resistance, discord, rebellion, and revolt. Front Matter 1 John O’Brien and Marc Schachter. Sedition: From Disobedience to Revolt 13 Paul-Alexis Mellet. La Sédition pendant les guerres civiles (France, 1560–1600): une histoire sans événement 39 George Hoffmann, The Language of Religious Conflict: Seditions, Assemblies, Emotions, Violences... 59 Andrea Frisch. Heresy and Sedition in Pierre de Ronsard’s Discours des misères de ce temps (1562) and Pierre Boton’s La France divisée (c. 1595) 83 Éric Durot. The Role of John Knox and his Seditious Writings in the Outbreak of the French Wars of Religion 109 John O’Brien. Cicero the Revolutionary: Some Seditious Motifs in the Literature of the French Wars of Religion 127 Natalia Wawrzyniak. ‘Books with Sharp Teeth’: The Perception of Seditious Books in Early Modern France 153 Ullrich Langer. How Not to Be (and Sound) Seditious: The Prince de Condé’s Justifications for Starting the First War of Religion (1562–63) 169 Tom Hamilton. Political Crime in the Wars of Religion: François Brigard’s Sedition 195 Armel Dubois-Nayt. The Sempill Ballats: Gendering Sedition and Rebellion 215 Marc Schachter. The Seditious Pleasures of the Prince in the Reveille-matin’s Denunciation of Tyranny 239 Kathleen Long. Styling Sedition in The Island of Hermaphrodites (L’Isle des Hermaphrodites, 1605) 263 Mark Greengrass (with Dénes Harai). The Several Faces of Sedition 291 Index 309 This interdisciplinary collection examines the notion of sedition in the period of the French Wars of Religion (1560?1600) 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.0An Introduction and a Conclusion provide synthetic analyses of the material studied in the individual chapters.