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By Megan C. Armstrong
The Politics of Piety situates the Franciscan order on the middle of the spiritual and political conflicts of the overdue 16th century to teach how a medieval charismatic non secular culture turned an engine of political switch. The friars used their redoubtable talents as preachers, highbrow education on the college of Paris, and private connections with different Catholic reformers and consumers to effectively impress well known competition to the unfold of Protestantism during the 16th century. through 1588, the friars used those related options on behalf of the Catholic League to avoid the succession of the Protestant inheritor presumptive, Henry of Navarre, to the French throne. This e-book contributes to our figuring out of faith as a formative political impulse through the 16th century via linking the long term political activism of the friars to the emergence of the French monarchy of the 17th century. through 1594, the resistance fixed by way of the Franciscans and different participants of the League to Navarre's succession secured his conversion. Navarre's conversion marked the triumph of the Franciscan and League belief of the French physique politic. both importantly, it laid the non secular foundations for the absolutist regulations of the Bourbon monarchs of the 17th century as those rulers made non secular unification a concern of royal coverage. The good fortune of the friars and different preachers of the League in mounting competition to the monarchy through the Wars of faith confident those rulers that political balance and robust monarchical authority lay in non secular harmony.
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This was particularly the case when the violence involved several members. During the sixteen-month-long Franciscan dispute of 1581/ 82, the conflict accelerated from verbal taunts to wholesale violent encounters between armed bands of friars. It was not until the intervention of the Parlement on August 3, 1582, that the dispute officially ended. Other legal cases involving the mendicant clergy show that many disputes raged for months before they were finally crushed, and almost invariably with the aid of local secular authorities.
Going beyond simple reliance on legal precedent, the Gallicanist magistrates of the sixteenth century emphasized the divinely instituted nature of the monarchy to justify the enhancement of the Parlement’s authority over French 22 The Politics of Piety religious life. Nor did the magistrates have to rely solely on the Pragmatic Sanction for their claim to such jurisdiction. Royal ritual was soaked in medieval assertions of the double authority of the monarchy. Once anointed with holy oil, the monarch became a spiritual as well as political leader.
This was particularly the case when the violence involved several members. During the sixteen-month-long Franciscan dispute of 1581/ 82, the conflict accelerated from verbal taunts to wholesale violent encounters between armed bands of friars. It was not until the intervention of the Parlement on August 3, 1582, that the dispute officially ended. Other legal cases involving the mendicant clergy show that many disputes raged for months before they were finally crushed, and almost invariably with the aid of local secular authorities.