id author title date pages extension mime words sentence flesch summary cache txt qf85n873f0m John W. McCormack Wounded Faith: Monarchy and Memory in the French Wars of Religion, 1559-1629 1904 .txt text/plain 370 10 38 This study traces a transformation in the way French kings were ritually commemorated during the Wars of Religion, focusing on the deaths of Henry II (1559), Charles IX (1574), Henry III (1589), and Henry IV (1610). By 1589, the Catholic League emerged to combat the religious policies of Henry III and the succession of Henry IV, and when Jacques Clément assassinated Henry III and was celebrated as a martyr, it showed how contested the memory of a French monarch could become. cache/qf85n873f0m.txt txt/qf85n873f0m.txt