An important and influential treatise on public power which influenced French thinkers from its publication in 1610 until the end of the ancien regime.

A new look at the French wars of religion, designed for undergraduate students and general readers.

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In this broad-ranging new study, Alan Harding challenges the orthodoxy that there was no state in the Middle Ages, arguing instead that it was precisely then th

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