Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in Early Modern Europe: From the Waldensians to the French Revolution

Historians Coward and Swann (both of Birkbeck College, U. of London, UK) present 13 historical case studies of conspiracies and conspiratorial thinking in Europe from the 1400s to the 1700s. The authors visit a diverse range of events and themes, offering papers on such topics as conspiracy prosecutions in Italy from 1500 to 1550, the role of conspiracies in the persecution of the Huguenots, conspiracy thinking by political opponents of the reign of Elizabeth I, conspiracies of party politics under the later Stuarts, and the role of conspiracy thinking in Edmund Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


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