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The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France

Published 1 January 1974
Natalie Zemon Davis
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Abstract

These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee. Ye shall utterly destroy all the places wherein the nations which ye shall possess served their gods, upon the high mountains, and upon the hills, and under every green tree: And ye shall overthrow their altars, and break their pillars and burn their groves with fire; and ye shall hew down the graven images of their gods, and destroy the names of them out of that place [Deuteronomy xii. 1–3].

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