Description: Monter notes the ways in which Protestants resisted the French judicial system even before the religious wars, and sets their story within the context of heresy prosecutions elsewhere in Reformation Europe, and within the long-term history of French criminal justice.
Brief description: William Monter is Professor of History, Northwestern University. He is the author of numerous works on Calvin's Geneva, witchcraft, and the Spanish Inquisition, including Frontiers of Heresy: The Spanish Inquisition from the Basque Lands to Sicily.
Review Quotes: Offering fascinating detailed analyses of individual cases, Monter convincingly shows that contrary to the opinions of Protestant martyrologists and generations of historians, the most intense prosecution of Protestants occurred not in the 1550s but in the 1540s...This superb book is a must for anyone interested in the French Reformation.--Jeffrey R. Watt "Religious Studies Review"