Abstract

This article explores the memory of France’s Wars of Religion in urban histories published during the century and a half that followed the restoration of peace with the Edict of Nantes in 1598. It asks why, despite explicit prohibitions against reviving memories of injuries suffered during the wars, local historians persisted in demonizing former opponents in histories that remained overtly confessional in their representation of the troubles. The article focuses on Catholic authors, who wrote fifty-six of the fifty-eight works examined. Protestants had little incentive to memorialize the towns in which they had a limited and declining position. Catholics, by contrast, mobilized memory to reaffirm a local identity rooted in Catholic practice and belief. Retelling the suffering local populations endured and recounting the city’s ritual responses to the religious schism, they pushed Protestants to the margins of a civic culture represented as inherently Catholic even in a bi-confessional state.

中文翻译：

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法国城市历史（1600年至1750年）中宗教战争的伤痕

摘要

本文探讨了法国在1598年与南特E令恢复和平之后的一个半世纪里出版的城市历史中的宗教战争的记忆。它提出了一个理由，尽管有明确的禁令禁止恢复战争期间遭受的伤害的记忆，但为何如此？ ，当地历史学家坚持不懈地妖魔化历史上的前反对者，而这些历史在对麻烦的表述上仍然是坦白的。本文重点讨论天主教作家，他们撰写了58本书中的56本书。新教徒没有动力去纪念他们地位有限和衰落的城镇。相比之下，天主教徒动员了记忆以重申植根于天主教习俗和信仰的当地身份。