Mack P. Holt is Professor of History at George Mason University. His work has won prizes from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, the National Huguenot Society, and the Southern Historical Association. He has served on the editorial board of French Historical Studies, and in 1999 was the president of the Society for French Historical Studies. He has previously taught at Harvard and Vanderbilt universities.

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• Introduction ; 1. The Kingdom of France in the Sixteenth Century ; 2. Social Groups and Cultural Practices ; 3. Rural, Urban, and Global Economies ; 4. Gender and the Family ; 5. Religion and the Sacred ; 6. The Wars of Religion ; 7. Catholic Reform and Religious Coexistence ; 8. Redrawing the Lines of Authority ; Conclusion ; Further Reading ; Chronology ; Maps

Mack P. Holt is Professor of History at George Mason University. His work has won prizes from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, the National Huguenot Society, and the Southern Historical Association. He has served on the editorial board of French Historical Studies, and in 1999 was the president of the Society for French Historical Studies. He has previously taught at Harvard and Vanderbilt universities.

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• Introduction ; 1. The Kingdom of France in the Sixteenth Century ; 2. Social Groups and Cultural Practices ; 3. Rural, Urban, and Global Economies ; 4. Gender and the Family ; 5. Religion and the Sacred ; 6. The Wars of Religion ; 7. Catholic Reform and Religious Coexistence ; 8. Redrawing the Lines of Authority ; Conclusion ; Further Reading ; Chronology ; Maps