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Huguenot Heartland
Philip Conner
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Description for Huguenot Heartland
hardcover. This text uses the town of Mountauban as a focus for a discussion of French Calvinism during the French Wars of Religion. The material ranges from the specific to the general, encompassing the role of Montauban as a Huguenot heartland and its place in international Calvinism. Series Editor(s): Cameron, Professor Euan; Gordon, Professor Bruce; Heal, Dr. Bridget; Mason, Professor Roger A.; Nelson Burnett, Professor Amy; Pettegree, Dr. Andrew; Von Greyerz, Professor Kaspar; Ryrie, Professor Alec; Heal, Dr. Felicity. Series: St Andrews Studies in Reformation History. Num Pages: 272 pages, Includes 2 b&w illustrations. BIC Classification: 3JB; 3JD; HBJD; HBLH; HRAM9; HRCC2; HRCC93. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156. Weight in Grams: 564.
In the immediate years and months before the outbreak of religious war in 1562 the growth of Protestantism in France had gone unchecked, and an overriding sense of Protestant triumphalism emerged in cities across the land. However, the wars unleashed a vigorous Catholic reaction that extinguished Protestant hopes of ultimate success. This offensive triggered violence across the provinces, paralysing Huguenot communities and sending many Protestant churches in northern France into terminal decline. But French Protestantism was never a uniform phenomenon and events in southern France took a rather different course from those in the north. This study ... Read more
In the immediate years and months before the outbreak of religious war in 1562 the growth of Protestantism in France had gone unchecked, and an overriding sense of Protestant triumphalism emerged in cities across the land. However, the wars unleashed a vigorous Catholic reaction that extinguished Protestant hopes of ultimate success. This offensive triggered violence across the provinces, paralysing Huguenot communities and sending many Protestant churches in northern France into terminal decline. But French Protestantism was never a uniform phenomenon and events in southern France took a rather different course from those in the north. This study ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
St Andrews Studies in Reformation History
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780754607625
SKU
V9780754607625
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About Philip Conner
Philip Conner, formerly Ushaw College, UK
Reviews for Huguenot Heartland
'... a useful first book... adds to the growing number of urban studies we now have of individual towns during the French civil wars, and it shows us once again that local dynamics mattered as much as court politics and national concerns in the success and failure of the Reformation.' H-France Reviews '... dense, tightly argued... Huguenot Heartland is ... Read more