Anti-Italianism in sixteenth-century France / Henry Heller.

In an examination of the Italian presence in France under the Valois and Bourbon monarchs, Heller links the cultural, moral, and political aspects of anti-Italianism with the rise of economic nationalism among the emergent French middle class.

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Main Author: Heller, Henry (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©2003.
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Table of Contents:
  • Nationalism and xenophobia in early modern context
  • Italians and the French Reformation: Lyons
  • The Italians at Lyons: usury and heresy
  • The Italians and the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre
  • Background to a massacre: the Italian courtiers and bankers
  • Anti-Italian discourses
  • The estates of Blois
  • The court Italians and the gathering storm
  • The flight of the Italians
  • The last of the Italians.