Mack P. Holt is Professor of History Emeritus at George Mason University. Recent publications include The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477–1630 (Cambridge, 2018), which won the David H. Pinkney Prize awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies.

• Chronological table of events; Introduction; 1. Gallicanism and the reformation; 2. 'The beginning of a tragedy': the early wars of religion, 1562–1570; 3. Popular disorder and religious tensions: the making of a massacre; 4. The rhetoric of resistance: the unmaking of the body politic, 1574–1584; 5. 'Godly warriors': the crisis of the league, 1584–1593; 6. Henry IV and the remaking of Gallicanism,1593–1610; 7. The last war of religion, 1610–1629; 8. Remembering the wars of religion: keeping the peace, material life, and absolute monarchy; Genealogical charts; Brief biographies; Suggestions for further reading.

Mack P. Holt is Professor of History Emeritus at George Mason University. Recent publications include The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477–1630 (Cambridge, 2018), which won the David H. Pinkney Prize awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies.

• Chronological table of events; Introduction; 1. Gallicanism and the reformation; 2. 'The beginning of a tragedy': the early wars of religion, 1562–1570; 3. Popular disorder and religious tensions: the making of a massacre; 4. The rhetoric of resistance: the unmaking of the body politic, 1574–1584; 5. 'Godly warriors': the crisis of the league, 1584–1593; 6. Henry IV and the remaking of Gallicanism,1593–1610; 7. The last war of religion, 1610–1629; 8. Remembering the wars of religion: keeping the peace, material life, and absolute monarchy; Genealogical charts; Brief biographies; Suggestions for further reading.

Mack P. Holt is Professor of History Emeritus at George Mason University. Recent publications include The Politics of Wine in Early Modern France: Religion and Popular Culture in Burgundy, 1477–1630 (Cambridge, 2018), which won the David H. Pinkney Prize awarded by the Society for French Historical Studies.

• Chronological table of events; Introduction; 1. Gallicanism and the reformation; 2. 'The beginning of a tragedy': the early wars of religion, 1562–1570; 3. Popular disorder and religious tensions: the making of a massacre; 4. The rhetoric of resistance: the unmaking of the body politic, 1574–1584; 5. 'Godly warriors': the crisis of the league, 1584–1593; 6. Henry IV and the remaking of Gallicanism,1593–1610; 7. The last war of religion, 1610–1629; 8. Remembering the wars of religion: keeping the peace, material life, and absolute monarchy; Genealogical charts; Brief biographies; Suggestions for further reading.