Conspiracies and conspiracy theory in early modern Europe : from the Waldensians to the French Revolution / edited by Barry Coward, Julian Swann

Published:: Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2004]
Copyright Date:: ©2004
Physical Description:: ix, 276 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Additional Creators:: Coward, Barry and Swann, Julian

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Contents:

Detecting the ultimate conspiracy, or, how Waldensians became witches / Wolfgang Behringer -- Conspiracy and its prosecution in Italy, 1500-1550 : violent responses to violent solutions / Kate Lowe -- Huguenot conspiracies, real and imagined, in sixteenth-century France / Penny Roberts -- Vengeance and conspiracy during the French wars of religion / Stuart Carroll -- The monarchical republic of Elizabeth I revisited (by its victims) as a conspiracy / Peter Lake -- The paranoid prelate : Archbishop Laud and the Puritan plot / Jason Peacey -- The closest bond : conspiracy in seventeenth-century French tragedy / Malina Stefanovska -- Faults on both sides : the conspiracies of party politics under the later Stuarts / Mark Knights -- 'Popery at St. James's' : the conspiracy theses of William Payne, Thomas Hollis, and Lord George Gordon / Colin Haydon -- Conspiracy and political practice from the Ancien Régime to the French Revolution / Peter Campbell -- Burke and the conspiratorial origins of the French Revolution: some Anglo-French resemblances / Nigel Aston -- 'The tartuffes of patriotism' : fears of conspiracy in the political language of revolutionary government, France 1793-1794 / Marisa Linton -- The "foreign plot" and the French Revolution : a reappraisal / Munro Price.

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ISBN:

0754635643 (alk. paper)

Note:

Based on a conference held at Birkbeck College in July 2001.

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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