A concise scholarly survey of the eight French civil wars between Catholics and Huguenots, including an estimate of their overall demographic cost that later scholarship has treated as an upper bound rather than a settled figure.
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Third edition of a standard Seminar Studies in History survey by an emeritus historian of early modern France. Its 2 to 4 million estimate for total war dead is the most frequently cited figure in general accounts and is also the figure other historians have specifically pushed back on as too high to verify. NotesThird edition of a standard Seminar Studies in History survey by an emeritus historian of early modern France. Its 2 to 4 million estimate for total war dead is the most frequently cited figure in general accounts and is also the figure other historians have specifically pushed back on as too high to verify.
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AuthorRobert J. Knecht
PublisherRoutledge
Publication Year2010
Source Typeacademic monograph
Claims Backed By This Source (12 claims)
This source backs 12 claims across the atlas. As facts: 7 well-attested, 3 scholarly debate. As cited relationships: 1 holds. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Wars & Conflicts, 5 claims: 3 scholarly debate, 1 holds, 1 general references.
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