Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre

(Historical Terms) the murder of Huguenots in Paris that began on Aug 24, 1572 on the orders of Charles IX, acting under the influence of his mother Catherine de' Medici

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With the possible exception of the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, this period has attracted far more recent attention than any other part of the religious wars.

Burning Zeal: The Rhetoric of Martyrdom and the Protestant Community in Reformation France, 1520-1570

And, because of her involvement in the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre in Paris, she came to be know as 'The Maggot from Italy's tomb', 'The Black Queen' and 'Madame la Serpente'.

Catherine de Medici

The counterdefense of martyrdom was rendered ineffective until the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre gave it a new currency on the Protestant side.

Hatred in Print: Catholic Propaganda and Protestant Identity during the French Wars of Religion

In discussing the Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre, for example, Heller argues that Catholic Parisians had developed a detestation of Italians as great as their hatred of Protestants and that Italians only escaped numerous attempts on their lives through the protection of the royal court.

Anti-Italianism in Sixteenth-Century France

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