dc.contributor.author | Wilkinson, Alexander S. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-07-19T16:32:17Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-07-19T16:32:17Z | |
dc.date.copyright | 2004 Oxford University Press and the Society for the Study of French History | en |
dc.date.issued | 2004-06 | |
dc.identifier.citation | French History | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 0269-1191 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10197/3716 | |
dc.description.abstract | The propaganda campaign launched in response to the assassination of the Duc and Cardinal de Guise on the orders of Henri III in December 1588 was the largest waged in the history of sixteenth-century France. Yet, it has never been the subject of systematic investigation. This article aims to fill this historiographical lacuna by presenting a broad survey of the principal arguments and techniques employed both by the Royalists, who sought to justify the act, and the League who exploited the event to radicalise Catholic opinion against Henri III. It finds that while the king was partly unwilling and partly unable to engage in any serious attempt to influence public opinion, the League exploited the media to defend the Guises as Catholic martyrs and to discredit the king as a criminal and irreligious tyrant. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Not applicable | en |
dc.format.extent | 479408 bytes | |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en |
dc.rights | This is a pre-copy-editing, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in French History following peer review. The definitive publisher-authenticated version, Wilkinson, Alexander S.‘HOMICIDES ROYAUX’: THE ASSASSINATION OF THE DUC AND CARDINAL DE GUISE AND THE RADICALISATION OF FRENCH PUBLIC OPINION. French History, 18 (2): 129-153 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fh/18.2.129, first published online June 2004 is available online at: http://fh.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/2/129 | en |
dc.subject | French history | en |
dc.subject | Media history | en |
dc.subject | Bibliography | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Mass media and propaganda--France--History | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Mass media and public opinion--France--History | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Louis, Cardinal of Guise, 1556-1588--Assassination | en |
dc.subject.lcsh | Guise, Henri, duc de, 1550-1588--Assassination | en |
dc.title | 'Homicides royaux' : the assassination of the Duc and Cardinal de Guise and the radicalization of French public opinion | en |
dc.type | Journal Article | en |
dc.internal.availability | Full text available | en |
dc.status | Peer reviewed | en |
dc.identifier.volume | 18 | en |
dc.identifier.issue | 2 | en |
dc.identifier.startpage | 129 | en |
dc.identifier.endpage | 153 | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/fh/18.2.129 | |
dc.neeo.contributor | Wilkinson|Alexander S.|aut| | en |
dc.description.admin | ti, ke - TS 10.04.12; OUP 2 year embargo has passed | en |
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