Pierre de L’Estoile and his world in the Wars of Religion PDF
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THE PAST & PRESENT BOOK SERIES GeneralEditor PETER COSS ’ Pierre de L Estoile and his World in the Wars of Religion ’ Pierre de L Estoile and his World in the Wars of Religion TOM HAMILTON 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. 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For Lucy Preface Likemanyreaderscuriousaboutsixteenth-centuryFrance,IfirstdiscoveredPierre deL’Estoileinthefootnotes.Ididnotrealizeatthetimejusthowfundamentalhe hasbeen forhistoriesofthe WarsofReligion.IfIhaddone,perhapsItoowould have filed him away in my notes, saved as a useful source for anecdotes and references. Instead, I was struck by his vivid evocation of life in sixteenth-century Paris,andhisinsightsintoalllevelsofthesocialhierarchy,aswellasbothCatholic and Protestant perspectives. For these reasons, I was especially drawn to his extraordinary collection of printed ephemera, the ‘Drolleries of the League’, a scrapbook history that denounced the populist zeal of the Catholic League with the evidence of its own publications. L’Estoile’s activities made more sense when Ireadthecontentsofhisafter-deathhouseholdinventoryandcabinetofcuriosities. I discovered that L’Estoile was more than a diarist; he was a collector who assembled a museum of the civil wars. Here was someone with whom I could discoverawholeworldintheworldtheWarsofReligion.Severalyearslater,Iam gladIpersistedwithhim. Manypeopleandinstitutionshelpedmetowritethisbookanditisapleasureto thankthemhere.MostoftheresearchtookplacewhileIwasagraduatestudentat NewCollege,UniversityofOxford,fundedbytheArtsandHumanitiesResearch Council, with further support from the Reynolds Fund of New College and the SocietyfortheStudyofFrenchHistory.DavidParrottwasanidealsupervisorand critic, overseeing my research with expert guidance and ever-generous support. Lyndal Roper gave great advice and encouragement, especially in the energizing research environment of informal early modern workshops. Robin Briggs offered counsel at crucial stages and guided my first attempts at early modern French palaeography.MarkGreengrasssharedwithmehisvastknowledgeofthisperiod, not least in reading and commenting on versions of the text, and I have greatly benefitted from his expertise and generosity. I have also drawn on the intellectual stimulation, encouragement, and advice of many more friends, colleagues, and students in the History Faculty and Hertford College, where I enjoyed a year of teaching and redrafting this work, during which the John Fell Oxford University PressResearchFundsupportedfurtherresearchinParis.ThestaffoftheBodleian History Faculty Library, Upper Reading Room, and Taylor Institution Library providedidealconditionsforresearch. Archival research took place in Paris. During my visits there, meetings with AlfredSomanhadaformativeinfluenceonthisproject.Iamgratefultohimforhis suggestions and comments on drafts, and for permission to consult and cite from hispapersattheJacobBurnsLawLibrary,GeorgeWashingtonUniversity,aswell astoJennyMeadeandKarenWahlwhokindlyfacilitatedmyresearchthere.Denis Crouzet and Robert Descimon also gave invaluable advice and welcomed me to theirseminars;theirworkhasbeenaconstantsourceofinspiration.Archivistsand viii Preface librariansintheArchivesnationales,theArchivesdelaPréfecturedePolice,andthe BibliothèquenationaledeFranceopeneduptomethewondersoftheircollections. Severalfriendsreadandcommentedonpartsofthisbook,sharingideasinsome casesfromtheearlieststagesofresearch.Theircollaborationhasbeenbothcrucial to this project and great fun. Thanks to Martin Christ, Emma Claussen, Clare Copeland,LiesbethCorens,StephenCummins,BenjaminDarnell,SietskeFransen, AlexFreer,JohnGallagher,NickHardy,KatHill,MichaLazarus,JanMachielsen, ErinMaglaque,SimoneMaghenzani,HannahMurphy,SamPollack,CarlaRoth, WillPooley,DavidvanderLinden,FelixWaldmann,andEdmundWareham,and special thanks to Tom Johnson and Jonathan Patterson, both of whom read and commentedondraftsofthewholething. Manymoreconversationsatseminars,conferences,workshops,andelsewhere equallyshapedmyresearchandmadeitworthpursuing.GraemeKemp,Andrew Pettegree, and Sandy Wilkinson gave me access to data gathered for the USTC project.WarrenBoutchersharedhisworkonL’EstoileandMontaigne.Caterina Franchi,GregoryKlyve,andIdaTothhelpedwithlanguages.Myundergraduate teachers at Gonville and Caius College and the University of Cambridge encouragedmetopursuemyinterestinearlymodernFrenchhistory—especially Melissa Calaresu, Mary Laven, and Ulinka Rublack—and, following my return to Cambridge as a research fellow at Trinity College, Alex Walsham has helped me to bring this book together. The Fellows’ Research Fund at Trinity covered the cost of the illustrations. I am grateful to the anonymous readers for the Past and Present Book Series and Oxford University Press for their close reading of the manuscript, to Mandi Gomez for her copy-editing, and to Peter Coss and Stephanie Ireland for overseeing the publication. All of these readers made so many helpfulsuggestionsandIhaveincorporatedmostofthem.Theerrorsthat remain are of course my own. Finally, thanks tomy family—my parents Clare andMike, my sister Cora, my grandparentsRitaandMalcolm,aswellasPrue,Gary,andIsobel—fortheirlove, support,andcuriosity.AndthankstoLucy,whohaslistenedtofartoomanystories about L’Estoile and his world, yet read and discussed seemingly endless drafts of every part of this book and encouraged me to think about the importance of the visual.Icouldnothavewrittenthiswithouthercollaboration. OUPCORRECTEDPROOF–FINAL,3/3/2017,SPi Contents ListofIllustrations xi ListofTables xv ListofAbbreviationsandConventions xvii Introduction 1 1. TheMaterialWorldofaHouseholdandCollection 17 2. TheSocialWorldofthePalaisdeJustice 47 3. FamilyLifeandtheEarlyCivilWars,1546‒1580 69 4. TheReignofHenriIII,1574‒1589 97 5. DrolleriesoftheLeague,1589‒1598 124 6. BookCollectingattheEndoftheCivilWars,1598‒1611 166 Conclusion 195 Bibliography 207 Index 231
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