Good newes from Fraunce

Description:

The French Religious Wars generated a large body of political propaganda from the Huguenots, the Politiques (a Huguenot-Catholic confederacy) and the Catholic League. Dr. Parmelee discusses how, in the last decades of the reign of Elizabeth I some 130 translated documents were imported into England, most of them - originating from the Politiques, written in support of the Protestant Henry of Navarre's accession to the French throne - advocating religious tolerance as a way to peace. She argues that while most English political thinkers did not openly embrace or articulate the absolutist ideas often expressed in these writings, they had a wide impact on political discourse in the late Elizabethan period. They were useful against foreign enemies, Catholic recusants and Presbyterians, but particularly, in a time of fear of civil war engendered by an unsettled succession, they helped to establish an intellectual climate conducive to the later development of Stuart absolutism.

subjects: Civilization,  Foreign relations,  French Propaganda,  French influences,  History,  Political science,  Propaganda,  Propaganda, French,  Great britain, foreign relations,  France, history, wars of the huguenots, 1562-1598,  Political science, great britain,  Great britain, civilization,  Great britain, foreign relations, france,  France, foreign relations, great britain,  France, history, 16th century

Places: France,  Great Britain

Times: 1558-1603,  16th century,  Wars of the Huguenots, 1562-1598