In Germany, the Saint Bartholomew’s Day massacre was seen as special but not unique. Confronted with the first news reports, German audiences turned to existing understandings of the nature of religious conflict to make sense of the traumatic stories. This article examines four broad and interrelated narrative frameworks that were used to explain the massacre. First, German Catholics and Lutherans, treasuring the orderly Peace of Augsburg, condemned the sedition of the Huguenots and saw the massacre as a regrettable but logical consequence of their rebellion. Secondly, rumours of conspiracy and equivocation abounded in the empire. These seemed to be confirmed by the massacre. Thirdly, fearing the erosion of noble prerogatives and the creation of ‘Turkish’ tyrannies, the massacre of the French nobility chimed in with German aristocratic anxieties. Finally, the horrific fate of so many fellow Christians in France led some to see the massacre as an eschatological event.

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德国关于圣巴塞洛缪日大屠杀的叙述

在德国，圣巴塞洛缪日大屠杀被视为特殊但并非独一无二。面对第一批新闻报道，德国观众转向对宗教冲突性质的现有理解，以理解这些创伤性故事。本文研究了用于解释大屠杀的四个广泛且相互关联的叙事框架。首先，德国天主教徒和路德教徒珍视奥格斯堡有条不紊的和平，谴责胡格诺派的叛乱，并将大屠杀视为他们叛乱的令人遗憾但合乎逻辑的后果。其次，帝国内部充斥着阴谋诡计的传闻。这些似乎都被大屠杀所证实。第三，由于害怕贵族特权的侵蚀和“土耳其”暴政的产生，对法国贵族的屠杀与德国贵族的焦虑相呼应。