Word: parlements
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...withdrew to his study at 38, with nothing more to show for his years than much high living, an undistinguished period of service in the Bordeaux Parlement, and a translation into French of a single, unimportant ecclesiastical text. For the next nine years, surrounded by his own library of 1,000 books, he wrote the first two volumes of the Essays. Before kidney stones killed him in 1592 at 59, he produced one more volume and a journal of his tour through Italy, Switzerland and Germany. And that...
...that papal jurisdiction over heads of state was only indirect and spiritual-the position generally accepted today. On the other hand, in opposition to the Scottish jurist Barclay, he denied the divine right of kings, for which one of his books, De potestate papae, was publicly burned by the Parlement of Paris...