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Article: Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion.(Book Review)
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- The Historian
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- September 22, 2004
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Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion. By Luc Racaut. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishers, 2002. Pp. xiv, 161. $74.95.)
This book attempts to reassess the role of Catholic propaganda in the triumph of Catholicism in sixteenth-century France. Arguing that historians have underestimated the use that Catholic authors made of the printing press in their effort to discredit their Protestant opponents, Luc Racaut makes a strong case for the important part that Catholic polemics played in stirring religious hatreds to a feverish pitch and provoking the violence that characterized France's Wars of Religion. The ...