The French Huguenots and Wars of Religion Davis Stephen M.
Winner of the National Huguenot Society's 2022 Scholarly Works AwardThe Huguenots and their struggle for freedom of conscience and freedom of worship are largely unknown outside of France. The…
Specifikacia The French Huguenots and Wars of Religion Davis Stephen M.
Winner of the National Huguenot Society's 2022 Scholarly Works AwardThe Huguenots and their struggle for freedom of conscience and freedom of worship are largely unknown outside of France. The entrance of the sixteenth-century Reformation in France, first through the teachings of Luther, then of Calvin, brought three centuries of religious wars before Protestants were considered fully French and obtained the freedom to worship God without repression and persecution from the established church and the tyrannical state. From the first martyrs early in the sixteenth century to the last martyrs at the end of the eighteenth century, Protestants suffered from the intolerance of church and state, the former refusing genuine reform and unwilling to relinquish privileges, the latter rejecting any threats to the absolute monarchy. The rights gained with one treaty or edict of