CONTRIBUTOR:

Amanda Eurich

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Professor of History

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Western Washington University

BIOGRAPHY:

Amanda Eurich is the author of The Economics of Power: The Private Finances of the House of Foix-Navarre-Albret during the Religious Wars (1994). She is also the author of numerous essays on Huguenot culture and the politics and practice of confessional co-existence in early modern France. She is currently writing a biography of Jean de Coras, the legendary sixteenth-century jurist who presided over the most famous case of identity theft in early modern Europe. In his L’Arrest Memorable Coras described his role in the trial of wily peasant, Arnaud du Tilh, who stole the wife, family, and property of his companion in arms, Martin Guerre. Behind the scenes, Coras was playing his own perilous game of subterfuge as a secret convert to Protestantism for which he would be expelled from office and eventually assassinated in the aftermath of the St. Bartholomew’s Day massacres.