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Author Coward, Barry

Title Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in Early Modern Europe : From the Waldensians to the French Revolution
Published Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; List of Figures; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 Detecting the Ultimate Conspiracy, or how Waldensians became Witches; 3 Conspiracy and its Prosecution in Italy, 1500-1550: Violent Responses to Violent Solutions; 4 Huguenot Conspiracies, Real and Imagined, in Sixteenth-Century France; 5 Vengeance and Conspiracy during the French Wars of Religion; 6 'The Monarchical Republic of Elizabeth I' Revisited (by its Victims) as a Conspiracy; 7 The Paranoid Prelate: Archbishop Laud and the Puritan Plot
8 The Closest Bond: Conspiracy in Seventeenth-Century French Tragedy9 Faults on Both Sides: The Conspiracies of Party Politics under the Later Stuarts; 10 'Popery at St. James's': The Conspiracy Theses of William Payne, Thomas Hollis, and Lord George Gordon; 11 Conspiracy and Political Practice from the ancien régime to the French Revolution; 12 Burke and the Conspiratorial Origins of the French Revolution: Some Anglo-French Resemblances; 13 'The Tartuffes of Patriotism': Fears of Conspiracy in the Political Language of Revolutionary Government, France 1793-1794
Notes 14 The 'Foreign Plot' and the French Revolution: A ReappraisalIndex
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Subject Conspiracies -- Europe -- History
Conspiracies
Europe
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Swann, Julian
ISBN 9781351949484
1351949489