[BURNET, Gilbert]; Collected out of Mezeray.
A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of About an Hundred Thousand Protestants, Begun at Paris, and Carried on Over All France by the Papists, in the Year 1572.
First Edition of Gilbert Burnet's A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of About an Hundred Thousand Protestants
London: Printed for Richard Chiswel, 1678.
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First edition of this seventeenth-century Protestant account of the 1572 St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre. Small octavo, bound in full red morocco by Zaehnsdorf with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers. In very good condition.
'A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of About an Hundred Thousand Protestants, Begun at Paris, and Carried on Over All France by the Papists, in the Year 1572' is a seventeenth-century English Protestant account of the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre, one of the most infamous episodes of religious violence in early modern Europe. Collected from the writings of French historians such as Mezeray and Thuanus (Jacques-Auguste de Thou), the work presents a vividly partisan narrative that interprets the massacre—during which thousands of Huguenots were killed—as both a moral atrocity and divine test of Protestant endurance. Written in a polemical style, the text exemplifies the transnational circulation of Reformation-era propaganda and the use of historical writing to sustain confessional identity and anti-Catholic sentiment in Restoration England.
A Relation of the Barbarous and Bloody Massacre of About an Hundred Thousand Protestants, Begun at Paris, and Carried on Over All France by the Papists, in the Year 1572.
$2,000.00
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