Summary This interdisciplinary collection examines the notion of sedition in the period of the French Wars of Religion (1560-1600) and focuses not only on France itself, but also on Scotland during the reign of the French-born Mary Queen of Scots. Composed of eleven chapters written by an international team of experts, this volume concentrates on the political aspects of sedition rather than religious heresy, and covers writings and publications in a wide range of fields: politics, history, law, literature, and gender. A complementary feature of this collection is the spectrum of writings studied; they include edicts and treatises, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dialogues, and satirical prose and poetry. Several chapters also address visual representations of sedition. An Introduction and a Conclusion provide synthetic analyses of the material studied in the individual chapters. This is a collection which will appeal to readers with interests in the history of political ideas and thought, the comparative study of monarchical government, and concepts of tyranny and resistance, discord, rebellion, and revolt. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements, List of Figures Introduction Sedition: From Disobedience to Revolt - John O'Brien and Marc Schachter The Language of Sedition La s dition pendant les guerres civiles (France, 1560-1600): une histoire sans v nement - Paul-Alexis Mellet The Language of Religious Conflict: Seditions, Assemblies, Emotions, Violences? - George Hoffmann Sources of Sedition Heresy and Sedition in Pierre de Ronsard's Discours des mis res de ce temps (1562) and Pierre Boton's La France divis e (c. 1595) - Andrea Frisch The Role of John Knox and his Seditious Writings in the Outbreak of the French Wars of Religion - ric Durot Cicero the Revolutionary: Some Seditious Motifs in the Literature of the French Wars of Religion - John O'Brien Genre and the Question of Sedition 'Books with Sharp Teeth': The Perception of Seditious Books in Early Modern France - Natalia Wawrzyniak How Not to Be (and Sound) Seditious: The Prince de Cond 's Justifications for Starting the First War of Religion (1562-63) - Ullrich Langer Political Crime in the Wars of Religion: Fran ois Brigard's Sedition - Tom Hamilton Gender, Sedition, and Literature The Sempill Ballats: Gendering Sedition and Rebellion - Armel Dubois-Nayt The Seditious Pleasures of the Prince in the Reveille-matin's Denunciation of Tyranny - Marc Schachter Styling Sedition in The Island of Hermaphrodites (L'Isle des hermaphrodites, 1605) - Kathleen Long Conclusion The Several Faces of Sedition - Mark Greengrass (with D nes Harai) Index