One King, One Law, Three Faiths: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz

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Political control & freedoms

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One King, One Law, Three Faiths: Religion and the Rise of Absolutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz : Praeger : 9780313307287 : 0313307288 : 30 Dec 2001 : Miskimin's work considers the religious feuding, hostility, and occasional cooperation of Catholics, Protestants, and Jews in 17th-century Metz. In a series of pointed chapters, she shows how the French Crown benefited from religious disagreement in the town by using that discord to push through its centralizing political agenda. Despite the disapproval of local leaders and the lack of any ideological commitment to coexistence, Catholics, Protestants, and Jews increasingly developed daily contacts in the city as the century progressed. Though these contacts were often hostile, they nonetheless continued and led to more complex interactions which undercut traditional religious verities. Using numerous examples from local court records, Miskimin explores the multilayered contacts between adherents of these three faiths in one of the on

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