SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE HUGUENOT WORLD, 1559 1685

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SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE HUGUENOT WORLD, 1 559?1 685

The Huguenots formed a privileged minority within early modern France. During the second half of the sixteenth century, they fought for freedom of worship in the French `wars of religion', which culminated in the Edict of Nantes in 1 598. The community was protected by the terms of the edict for eighty-seven years until Louis XIV revoked it in 1 685. The Huguenots therefore constitute a minority group tolerated by one of the strongest nations in early modern Europe, a country more often associated with the absolute power of the crown ? in particular that of Louis XIV.

This collection of essays explores the character and identity of the Huguenot movement by examining their culture and institutions, their patterns of belief and worship, and their interaction with the French state and society. The volume draws upon recent research by leading historians and new specialists from across Europe and North America.

R A Y M O N D A . M E N T Z E R holds the Daniel J. Krumm Family Chair in Reformation Studies, University of Iowa.

A N D R E W S P I C E R is a Research Fellow in the Department of History, University of Exeter.

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SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE HUGUENOT WORLD 1 559?1 685

EDITED BY

RAYMOND A. MENTZER

AND

ANDREW SPICER

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data Society and culture in the Huguenot world, 1559?1685 / edited by Raymond A. Mentzer.

p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0 521 77324 5 1. Huguenots ? France ? History ? 16th century. 2. Huguenots ? France ? History ?

17th century. I. Mentzer, Raymond A. II. Spicer, Andrew. BX9454.3 .S63 2002 305.6?45044 ? dc21 2001037547

ISBN-13 978-0-521-77324-9 hardback ISBN-10 0-521-77324-5 hardback

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Contents

List of illustrations List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations

1 Introduction: E^ tre protestant Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer

2 Preaching, printing, psalm-singing: the making and unmaking of the Reformed church in Lyon, 1 550?1 572 Timothy Watson

3 Religious polemic and Huguenot self-perception and identity, 1 554?1 61 9 Luc Racaut

4 Confessionalization in France? Critical reflections and new evidence Philip Benedict

5 Huguenot petitioning during the wars of religion Penny Roberts

6 Informal networks in sixteenth-century French Protestantism Mark Greengrass

7 The Edict of Nantes and its institutions Raymond A. Mentzer

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Contents

8 `Speaking the King's language': the Huguenot

magistrates of Castres and Pau

117

Amanda Eurich

9 The Huguenot academies: preparing for

an uncertain future

1 39

Karin Maag

1 0 Huguenot poor relief and health care in the sixteenth

and seventeenth centuries

157

Martin Dinges

1 1 `Qui est de Dieu, oit la parole de Dieu': the Huguenots

and their temples

175

Andrew Spicer

1 2 `Ensevelir honnestement les corps': funeral corteges

and Huguenot culture

1 93

Bernard Roussel

1 3 Huguenot militancy and the seventeenth-century

wars of religion

209

Alan James

1 4 Epilogue

224

Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer

Index

238

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