Mack P. Holt

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Mack P. Holt is Professor in the Department of History, George Mason University, USA.

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Works by Mack P. Holt

The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 (1995) 145 copies, 1 review

Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500-1648 (2002) 37 copies

Alcohol: A Social and Cultural History (2006) 31 copies

The Duke of Anjou and the Politique Struggle during the Wars of Religion (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern History) (1986) 7 copies

Society and Institutions in Early Modern France (1991) 6 copies

Adaptations of Calvinism in Reformation Europe: Essays in Honour of Brian G. Armstrong (St Andrews Studies in Reformation History) (2007) — Editor; Contributor — 5 copies

The politics of wine in early modern France : religion and popular culture in Burgundy, 1477-1630 (2018) 1 copy

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Birthdate: 1949-08-29
Gender: male

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AlexTheHunn 806 reviews

The French Wars of Religion, 1562-1629 by Mack P. Holt

Holt accounts for the events that tore French society assunder for seventy years. Holt writes as a social historian; his is not strictly an account of Henri III, Catherine de Medici, Henri IV, the Guise family, etc. Although these do figure into his book, this is not a top-down approach. Holt examines the appeal of Calvinism to the French. What drove French peasants and aristocrats to abandon Catholicsm in favor of the austere religion from Geneva? Why did this conflict become so violent?

Mar 25, 2006