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Week IV Discussion

Week IV Discussion

Q Limited to the usual 500 words or less, I would like you to comment on the nature of the conflict between the monarchs, the Barons and the Church described in the lecture, and also on the use of assassination as a means of political change and redress. As noted in the lecture, Catherine de Medici had warned her son Henry III of France that 'assassination bred assassination.' The stability of France was shattered by decades of civil war, and all of the contenders in what is remembered as the "War of the Three Henrys" were killed by assassins.

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The nature of the conflict had been because of the desire to become heirs/successors of kings. Moreover, there had been a constant struggle to try to dominate and show to the world of monarchs that one particular monarch had been superior to the other monarchs. There had been religion-based conflict because of Catholicism being accepted by monarchs. There had also been nationality on the basis of which conflicting situations had got enhanced.