History Today, October 1st, 2004
Catherine de Medici A Biography
Leonie Frieda
Weidenfeld & Nicolson 440pp 20 [pounds sterling] ISBN 1 84212 725 X
RELIGIOUS FANATICISM IS ALL THE RAGE TODAY. Donald Rumsfeld's 'old Europe' is reawakening to the power of religious belief for good or ill. So it is perhaps appropriate that in Leonie Frieda's new biography of Catherine de' Medici, we have an opportunity to recall a time of destructive religious fanaticism, violence and cruelty--not in some distant foreign field (or desert), but at the heart of sixteenth-century Europe.
Frieda's declared aim is to present Catherine de' Medici...
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