Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685.(Book Review)

The Historian | June 22, 2004| | Copyright

Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685. Edited by Raymond Mentzer and Andrew Spicer. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Pp. v, 241. $60.00.)

"What did it mean to be Protestant in France during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries" (1)? This question informs each of the fourteen essays in this collection. These studies of Huguenot institutions and elements of everyday life reveal an "homme protestant" whose identity was formed by his faith and status as a member of a minority religion. The essays demonstrate the complexity of French ...

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