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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Main Author: Flood, Christopher M. 1975- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Sixteenth Century Journal Publishers, Inc. [2020]
In: 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
Further subjects:B 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