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Article: Justice et religion en Languedoc au temps de l'Edit de Nantes: La Chambre de l'Edit de Castres (1579-1679).
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- September 1, 1999
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Justice et religion en Languedoc au temps de l'Edit de Nantes: La Chambre de l'Edit de Castres (1579-1679). By Stephane Capot. Memoires et Documents de l'Ecole des Chartes 52. Paris: Ecole des Chartes, 1998. 427 pp. Fr 200 paper.
Recent public and scholarly conferences commemorating the four hundredth anniversary of the Edict of Nantes (1598) have emphasized the royal legislation as an early and important step toward confessional coexistence. Some observers have further suggested that it marked the beginnings of modern notions of toleration. Whatever the ultimate significance of the edict, it did seek to provide a legal and political framework for concluding some ...