Article: Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France.(Book review)

Sacred Boundaries: Religious Coexistence and Conflict in Early-Modern France. By Keith P. Luria (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2005. xxxviii plus 357 pp. $69.95).

The sixteenth-century French Wars of Religion stand out as the most extreme case of Europeans killing each other in the age of the Protestant and Catholic Reformations. In no other state in western Europe did civilians turn on each other in such force--often neighbor against neighbor--killing each other in their thousands. The St. Bartholomew's massacres in 1572 are often highlighted as the bloodiest examples of this violence. A combination of significant Huguenot growth in ...

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