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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Rural Engagement During the F rench Wars of Religion: the Case of B rittany
Author(s) -
Hamon Philippe
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
journal of historical sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.186
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1467-6443
pISSN - 0952-1909
DOI - 10.1111/johs.12066
Subject(s) - politics , rural community , aggression , action (physics) , order (exchange) , spanish civil war , collective action , political action , rural area , political science , sociology , social psychology , economics , psychology , demography , law , physics , finance , quantum mechanics
In 1589, F rench rural communities in Brittany committed themselves in the last of the wars of Religion. Their community reality, officering, weaponry and forms of action showed that the integration of rural parishes into the “political body” of the kingdom was then both active and militarily functional. They had no specific agenda on the socio‐economic level. Their choice of a political camp in that civil war seemed to be a mere consequence of their defensive engagement against a direct aggression. The main purpose of that rural mobilization, as many others, was then reestablishing order and security in their country.