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5 - French Religious Politics

from Part I - France and Its Influence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 November 2019

R. Ward Holder
Affiliation:
Saint Anselm College, New Hampshire
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John Calvin converted to evangelical doctrines in his homeland, France, where Protestantism was officially proscribed. In 1535, during a spike in heresy persecution, like scores of evangelicals before him and thousands afterward, he fled as a religious refugee. By the time of his death in 1564, though ever an exile in Geneva, he had done more than any other person to transform the religious politics of France, which had plunged into the beginning of a long “war of religion” (1562–1598). That civil war’s chief protagonists, French Reformed Protestants, “Huguenots,” were his disciples. In attempting to put Calvin in proper context, one must describe both the political environment that shaped his and other French people’s response to Protestantism as well as his role, among all the other major actors, in reshaping it.

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Print publication year: 2019

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Suggested Further Readings

Daussy, Hugues. Le parti huguenot: Chronique d’une désillusion. Geneva: Librairie Droz, 2014.Google Scholar
Holt, Mack P., ed. Renaissance and Reformation France: 1500–1648. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Jouanna, Arlette. La France du xvie siècle, 1483–1598. 3rd ed. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 2016.Google Scholar
Kingdon, Robert M. Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France, 1555–1563. Reprint edition with foreword by Holt, Mack P. and postface by Kingdon, Robert M.. Geneve: Droz, 2007 (First published 1956).Google Scholar
Knecht, Robert J. The Rise and Fall of Renaissance France: 1483–1610. 2nd ed. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002.Google Scholar
Reid, Jonathan A. King’s Sister – Queen of Dissent: Marguerite of Navarre (1492–1549) and Her Evangelical Network. 2 vols. Studies in Medieval and Reformation Traditions, 139. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, 2009.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sutherland, Nicola M. The Huguenot Struggle for Recognition. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1980.Google Scholar

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