The Huguenots / Geoffrey Treasure.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Treasure, G. R. R. (Geoffrey Russell Richards)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Huguenots--History.

Huguenots.

Protestants--France--History.

Protestants.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (515 p.)

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win-however briefly-freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a protected minority. But in 1685, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished all Huguenot rights, and more than 200,000 of the radical Calvinists were forced to flee across Europe, some even farther. In this capstone work, Geoffrey Treasure tells the full story of the Huguenots' rise, survival, and fall in France over the course of a century and a half. He explores what it was like to be a Huguenot living in a "state within a state," weaving stories of ordinary citizens together with those of statesmen, feudal magnates, leaders of the Catholic revival, Henry of Navarre, Catherine de' Medici, Louis XIV, and many others. Treasure describes the Huguenots' disciplined community, their faith and courage, their rich achievements, and their unique place within Protestantism and European history. The Huguenot exodus represented a crucial turning point in European history, Treasure contends, and he addresses the significance of the Huguenot story-the story of a minority group with the power to resist and endure in one of early modern Europe's strongest nations.

Contents:

The Huguenots

Front matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

PART ONE :EUROPE FALLS APART

Chapter one .The Native Land people and institutions

Chapter two .Renaissance Kingship and Noble Subjects

Chapter three .The Special Relationship

Chapter four. The Power of the Word

Chapter five. Every Man His Own Priest

Chapter six .The French Church, Humanism and the Pre-Reform

Chapter seven. 'God Will Change the World'

Chapter eight. Calvin the way, the truth and the life

Chapter nine. Geneva the experiment and the experience

PART TWO: A CHURCH FORMS

Chapter ten. Persecution and Growth

Chapter eleven. Why Be a Huguenot?

Chapter twelve. A Party Forms

Chapter thirteen .Towards War

Chapter fourteen. A Kingdom Divided

Chapter fifteen. Battle, Murder and Deadly Consequences

Chapter sixteen .The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day

PART THREE: RELIGIOUS WARS

Chapter seventeen. A Failing State

Chapter eighteen .The Struggle Intensifies

Chapter nineteen. Henry IV, King of France

Chapter twenty .The Edict of Nantes

Chapter twenty- one. The Regime of the Edict

Chapter twenty- two. Catholic Reformation

Chapter twenty- three. Ventures Too Far

Chapter twenty- four. The Great Siege

PART FOUR: 1629-1661. A GOLDEN AGE

Chapter twenty- five .'The Little Flock'

Chapter twenty- six .The Eye of the Storm Huguenot lives and conditions

Chapter twenty- seven. A Pastoral and Spiritual Crisis

Chapter twenty- eight. Revision or Reunion?

PART FIVE: REVOCATION

Chapter twenty- nine. Uncertain Times

Chapter thirty. Mars Ascendant

Chapter thirty- one. Temptations and Trials

Chapter thirty- two. Towards Resolution

Chapter thirty- three. Force Majeure

Chapter thirty- four. Aftermath

Chapter thirty- five. Diaspora

Chapter thirty- six .Huguenotism Recovers its Soul war in the Cevennes

Chapter thirty- seven. Sous La Croix

Afterword: Strangers and Citizens

Glossary

Notes

Further Reading

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780300208665

0300208669

9780300196191

0300196199

OCLC:

855022870