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Absolute Power in the Dock Absolute Power in the Dock
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The End of Love’s Reign? The End of Love’s Reign?
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‘Defending the Public Good’ ‘Defending the Public Good’
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United Against Tyranny United Against Tyranny
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8 Political Readings of the French Tragedy
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Published:May 2015
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Abstract
Other readings of the Massacre than that of divine punishment were possible. Protestant intellectuals (for the most part), the so-called monarchomachs, soon published treatises and tracts attacking the tyranny that absolute royal power had become and, with extensive reference to precedents from Roman and medieval history, defending the ideas of a mixed constitution and of a contract between rulers and subjects limiting, as in the past, the limits of authority and obedience. Such ideas were not wholly new, but the Massacre gave them far greater relevance and urgency. On the need to oppose tyranny and defend the public good, they found that moderate Catholics agreed with them, which led to the emergence of a Malcontent “party” composed mainly of high-ranking nobles by 1573-4, who broadly agreed on the legitimacy of rebellion by the nobility against tyrannical rulers. The continuing political crisis after 1572 and Charles IX’s arrest of leading aristocratic opponents suspected of conspiracy ensured that such arguments remained topical for several years.
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