Of Pastorals and Partisans: Nationalist Variations on the Myth of Rural Virtue in Sixteenth-Century Anti-Protestant Polemics
In the tumultuous time preceding the French Wars of Religion, one innovative partisan author infused his anti-Protestant rhetoric with nationalistic discourse based in the myth of rural virtue. Drawing on existing anxieties regarding urbanization, Artus Désiré depicted Geneva as a festering slum tee...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc.
[2020]
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The sixteenth century journal
Year: 2020, Volume: 51, Issue: 2, Pages: 343-366 |
RelBib Classification: | KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance KBG France KDB Roman Catholic Church KDD Protestant Church SA Church law; state-church law ZC Politics in general |
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Catholic apologetics
B Country life in literature B Partisanship B Ethics in literature B Desire, Artus B Anti-Protestantism literature B 16th century French literature B Pamphlets B Pastoral societies in literature |