meddle
The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology
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meddle † mix, mingle; intr. mix or mingle in company or conflict XIV; busy oneself
with XV. — OF.
me(s)dler, var. of
mesler (mod.
mêler):- Rom. *
misculāre, f. L.
miscēre MIX.
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Huguenots and Camisards as Aliens in France: 1589-1789, The Struggle for Religious Toleration.
Magazine article from: Journal of Church and State; 6/22/2002; ; 700+ words
; By Brian E. Strayer. Lewiston, N.Y., Edward Mellen Press, 2001. iv + 616 pp. np. Based on extensive exploration of primary and secondary sources, this work represents an impressive synthesis of the history of relations between the French absolutist state and the Protestant minority in the reign of
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Putting Blacks in the Civil War Picture; Columbia Man Helps Give History a Face
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/16/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...and cousin Marvin Greene started Black Camisards Inc., a business of Civil War collectibles...how we all started," Greene said. "Camisards" refers to both the French rebels and...they wore during night raids. "The Camisards were sort of the minorities of French...
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Persecution of a minority.
Magazine article from: Calliope; 3/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...ships. In mountainous Cevennes, the so-called Camisards defended their own form of Protestantism by fighting...on foot. RELATED ARTICLE: The Revolt of the Camisards. The Revolt of the Camisards ravaged the province of Languedoc from 1702 to...
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NOT SUCH SIMPLE GIFTS.(history of the Shakers)
Magazine article from: History Today; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...movement can be traced back to the French Camisards, a sect of Protestants who roamed the...Edict of Nantes in 1685, a handful of Camisards fled to England. They settled into relative...Wardley left the Quakers and joined the Camisards, believing that the Second Coming was...
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The Huguenots, the Protestant Interest, and the War of Spanish Succession: 1702-1714.
Magazine article from: Journal of European Studies; 9/1/1997; ; 700+ words
; ...Huguenot emigres, the Swiss and the Camisards form the subject of most of the book...States-General, the uprising of the Camisards after the flush of its initial triumphs...British support on 1704-5 cost the Camisards their vital momentum and their early...
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History's Soldier; Blacks in Civil War Is Vendor's `Passion'
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 7/16/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...and cousin Marvin Greene started Black Camisards Inc., a business of Civil War collectibles...how we all started," Greene said. "Camisards" refers to both the French rebels and...they wore during night raids. "The Camisards were sort of the minorities of French...
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Origins of the Shakers: From the Old World to the New World.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...the title Spirit Possession and Popular Religion: From the Camisards to the Shakers. It remains a significant volume today and...surge in this prophetism to the Protestant militants called "Camisards" who rebelled against the French monarchy at the end of the...
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La memoire des Guerres de religion: La concurrence des genres historiques (XVIe-XVIIIe siecles).(Book review)
Magazine article from: Renaissance Quarterly; 3/22/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...backdrop of the revocation of the Edict of Nantes and royal persecution of Protestants during the so-called "guerre des Camisards" (1702-10). Moreover, Daniel's Histoire reserves high praise for Henri IV and his ministers. Perhaps for these reasons...
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The isolated Cevennes region is one of France's best-kept secrets
News Wire article from: AP Worldstream; 9/25/2002; ; 700+ words
; ...activities of caving and canyoning. But the Cevennes also has a varied and sometimes grim history. It is the land of the Camisards, Protestant peasants who rebelled against persecution in the early 18th century following the repeal of the Edict of Nantes...
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The Sabbatean Prophets.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 9/22/2005; ; 700+ words
; ...James Nayler, Isaac de La Peyrere, and Jean de Labadie; and the movements of the Quakers, the Ranters, and the French Camisards. Thus, mass, popular events both within Jewish circles, generally involving the support of important rabbis, and outside...
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Camisards
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church
Camisards. A group of fanatical French Protestants, who rose in revolt in the Cévennes district in 1702 against the rigorous steps taken by Louis XIV to suppress their religion.
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Camisard Revolt
Encyclopedia entry from: Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World
...destroy the Catholic Church. Called "Camisards" after the camisa, or white smocks...winning several small victories. The Camisards fought a strikingly modern guerrilla...Philippe. La l é gende des Camisards. Une sensibilit é au pass...
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Jean Cavalier
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...1681?-1740, French Protestant soldier, a leader of the Camisards . From his home in the Cévennes region of France...the Protestants were about to rebel. As chief leader of the Camisards, he showed remarkable military genius. In 1704 he made peace...
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Huguenots
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...and America. The only important fragment of Huguenots left in France was in the Cévennes, where the war of the Camisards (1702-10) broke out. In 1787, Louis XVI allowed the Huguenots tolerance, and in Dec., 1789, the revolutionary National...
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Mother Ann Lee
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
...spiritual truth. The Wardleys, however, had also been influenced by a group of millenarian apocalypticists known as the Camisards or French Prophets. Borrowing from this tradition, the Wardleys taught that the Second Coming of Christ was very near...
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