366 Book Reviews Rodier, Yann, Les Raisons de la haine: Histoire d’une passion dans la France du premier XVIIe siècle, 1610–1659 (Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2019) ISBN: 9791026708476 Memories of slaughter, cannibalism and chaos haunted French society in the...
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366 Book Reviews Rodier, Yann, Les Raisons de la haine: Histoire d’une passion dans la France du premier XVIIe siècle, 1610–1659 (Ceyzérieu: Champ Vallon, 2019) ISBN: 9791026708476 Memories of slaughter, cannibalism and chaos haunted French society in the wake of the sixteenth-century Wars of Religion. Yann Rodier’s lengthy study of hatred contributes to a growing body of work on the affective dimension of the conflict and its aftermath (Katherine Ibbett, Mathilde Bernard) as well as recent investigations into the affects surrounding absolutism (Chloé Hogg). Rodier’s patchwork of lucid, pithy readings tackles a remarkable array of material – polemical pamphlets, paintings, ceremonies, sermons, moralistic tales and more – and creates a complex account of hatred and its mobilisa- tion by a range of political and religious actors in the first half of the seven- teenth century. Rodier’s exploration of the role of hatred during Marie de Medici’s regency (1610–1617), in Part 1, begins with a
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