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Adjudicating the Troubles: Violence, Memory, and Criminal Justice at the End of the Wars of Religion

Hamilton, Tom

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This article gives a new perspective on the themes of violence, memory, and criminal justice at the end of the Wars of Religion by focusing on a particularly well-documented criminal case tried by the Parlement of Paris. Previous studies of the end of the troubles have often focused on the politics and personality of Henri IV or studied memory culture through elite cultural production. This article instead examines how the witnesses who confronted the royalist military capitain Mathurin de La Cange made use of a broad, social memory of the civil wars and shows how their use of the courts formed part of a larger pattern of post-war conflict resolution. This was a time when people in France endured decades of warfare and confessional division, but nevertheless emerged determined to put an end to the violence by committing to resolve their disputes through the law.

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Hamilton, T. (2020). Adjudicating the Troubles: Violence, Memory, and Criminal Justice at the End of the Wars of Religion. French History, 34(4), 417-434. https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/craa044

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Jun 21, 2020
Online Publication Date Aug 19, 2020
Publication Date Dec 1, 2020
Deposit Date Dec 10, 2019
Publicly Available Date Mar 28, 2024
Journal French History
Print ISSN 0269-1191
Electronic ISSN 1477-4542
Publisher Oxford University Press
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 34
Issue 4
Pages 417-434
DOI https://doi.org/10.1093/fh/craa044

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