The Wars of Religion, Part I Murder of Coligny and St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre Click here for a map of the territorial divisions of France along religious and political lines. The religious wars began with overt hostilities in 1562 and lasted until the Edict of Nantes in 1598. It was warfare that devastated a generation, although conducted in rather desultory, inconclusive way. Although ...

Volume Thirty-Five 1993 Essays in History Published by the Corcoran Department of History at the University of Virginia. The Devil and the Religious Controversies of Sixteenth-Century France Carleton Cunningham RESEARCH conducted by social historians in the past few decades has revealed a rich fabric of religious belief and ritual in late medieval and early modern Europe. In concentrating on ...