Abstract:perhaps feel closer to the age of religious wars and conflicts than to the ideal type of Voltairean enlightenment?Since the 1990s, early modern historiography has reacted to this shift of themes and the perception of time horizons. For example, from the 1960s on, historians discussed the wars in late sixteenth-century France in terms of 'Civil Wars' about social conflicts between some proto-bourgeois actors and feudal lords, or at least as wars caused only by conflicts between different noble factions. It was … Show more
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