The Huguenots [[electronic resource] /] / Geoffrey Treasure

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910779857203321
• Autore: Treasure G. R. R (Geoffrey Russell Richards)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, 2013
• ISBN: 0-300-20866-9; 0-300-19619-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (515 p.)
• Disciplina: 284/.509
• Soggetti: Huguenots - History; Protestants - France - History
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.