The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History and Culture)

Offering a rich array of sources on the conflict, St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre chronicles the most notorious episode in France's sixteenth century civil and religious wars, enabling you to explore not only the massacre, but church-state relations, the moral responsibility of secular and religious authorities, and the origins and consequences of religious persecution and intolerance in this period.