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Let God Arise - The War and Rebellion of the Camisards (Hardcover, New)
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Let God Arise - The War and Rebellion of the Camisards (Hardcover, New)
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Let God Arise draws upon an extensive array of archival sources to
present the first modern account in English entirely devoted to the
rebellion and war of the Camisards. Combining traditional narrative
with analysis, W. Gregory Monahan examines the issues that led to
that rebellion, beginning with the conversion of the artisans and
peasants of the remote mountain region of the Cevennes to
Protestantism in the sixteenth century, its persistence in that
confession in the seventeenth, and the shattering impact of the
Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which deprived Protestants first
of their pastors, and then of the itinerant preachers who attempted
to take their place. Beginning in 1701, prophetism swept the
region, and the prophets, who believed they heard and followed the
word of the Holy Spirit, soon led their followers into violent
attacks on the Catholic Church and rebellion against the crown. A
persistent and occasionally successful guerrilla war raged for over
two years. Monahan argues that the resulting war involved a host of
often conflicting world views, or discourses, in which the various
parties to the conflict, whether the king and his ministers at
Versailles, the provincial intendant Basville and local officials,
the foreign powers, the Church, the generals, or the Camisard
rebels themselves, often misunderstood or failed to communicate
with each other, resulting too often in terrible violence and
bloodshed. Let God Arise tells us much about the nature of the
reign of Louis XIV and the popular religion of the time in
exploring the last great rebellion in France before the Revolution
of 1789.
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