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The Huguenots (Paperback)
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The Huguenots (Paperback)
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Loot Price R485
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An unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in
France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora 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.
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