Renaissance and Revolt
Essays in the Intellectual and Social History of Early Modern France

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Humanism, Stoicism, and Interest of State:
1. Cicero and Tacitus in sixteenth-century France
2. Protestant jurists and theologians in early modern France: the family of Cappel
3. French satire in the late sixteenth century
4. Rohan and interest of state
Part II. Sovereignty, Resistance, and Christian obedience:
5. Bodin and the monarchomachs
6. An alternative theory of popular resistance: Buchanan, Rossaeus, and Locke
7. Gallicanism and Anglicanism in the age of the Counter-Reformation
Part III. Structures and Fissures:
8. Venality of office and popular sedition in seventeenth-century France
9. Peasant revolt in Vivarais, 1575–1580
10. The Paris Sixteen, 1584–1594: the social analysis of a revolutionary movement
11. The Audijos revolt: provincial liberties and institutional rivalries under Louis XIV
Index.

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