O direito de resistência e o controle do poder: uma necessidade “medieval”

The transition from the Late Middle Ages to the Mo-dern Age was a turbulent period: conflicts, the Refor-mation, the rise of royal power to the detriment of the feudal system, all of this contributed to the secu-larization of political thought. It was a period marked by the publication of several papers, many of them in pamphlet nature, aimed at publicizing the abuses and convincing new adepts. After the episode in the city of Paris, known as Saint Bartholomew's Night, in 1572, the direction of thesewritings was changed and the construction of a theory of the right to resist ba-sed on political-legal foundations, in addition to reli-gious foundations, became a pressing need. This time, the present research aims to analyze the politi-cal and legal foundations of the right of resistance de-veloped by the huguenots —french calvinists —veri-fied at the end of the Low Middle Ages and at the be-ginning of the Modern Age in order to conclude for the need to control of the power and the role of re-sistance in the fight against abuse. Therefore, the ob-jective of the research is exploratory and descriptive, using the historical analysis and the bibliographic sur-vey of secondary sources.