History of the Civil Wars in France. Volume 2
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History of the Civil Wars in France. Volume 2
49.99 €
"History of the Civil Wars in France" by Enrico Caterino Davila is a work by an Italian military and political figure who served in his youth at the court of the kings of France from the Valois dynasty and became a witness and then a participant in a large-scale conflict between Catholics and Protestants, which is commonly called the Religious Wars (1559-1598). In 1630, shortly before his death, Davila wrote a history of these wars, which immediately became widely known and was translated into several European languages. Before the reader is a large historical work, essentially the history of France in the second half of the 16th century, the history of a brutal civil military-political and social struggle. For the first time, a foreign author presented the forty-year French conflict both as a participant and as an external observer and analyst. Davila showed that the religious side of the war often faded into the background against the background of the struggle of the parties for material interests, social status, privileges, giving way to an open clash of great family clans and the settling of personal scores. Enrico Caterino tried to show his readers that, despite their mistakes and inconsistency, the kings of the Valois family tried to maintain peace, trying to reconcile the warring religious and political parties. The second volume of the History of the Civil Wars in France covers the tense period from 1584 to 1590, when the political rivalry between the three Henrys reached its apogee - the French King Henry III of Valois, Duke Henry of Guise and the Navarrese King Henry Bourbon. Davila recounts how a dense series of bloody events of civil wars, associated with the sharp rise of the Catholic League, which began to challenge power from Henry III, political assassinations of 1588-1589, external interventions, widespread uprisings of cities and provinces, brought France to the brink of national catastrophe.
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