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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Cerny, Gerald

Titel

Theology, Politics and Letters at the Crossroads of European Civilization : Jacques Basnage and the Baylean Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic

Ist Teil von

• Archives Internationales D�́�Histoire Des Idees International Archives of the History of Ideas : 107

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1987

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• I. From the City of Joan of Arc to the United Provinces of William III and the grand pensionary Heinsius -- 1. The Basnages of Rouen: Huguenot avocats in the Parlement of Normandy and pastors of the French Reformed Church -- 2. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in Rouen -- 3. Refuge in Holland: Ministry in the Walloon Church of Rotterdam and the Republic of Letters in the time of Pierre Bayle, 1685�́�1709 -- 4. Refuge in Holland: Ministry in the Walloon Church of The Hague and Protestant diplomacy, 1710-23 -- II. Dimensions of the Huguenot intellectual of the �́�Diaspora�́� -- 5. First modern historian of the Jews: Rational criticism versus Xenophobia and the Wall of Silence -- 6. Critic of Bossuet and historian of the Protestant churches: The position of dissenters in an absolute monarchy -- 7. Religious controversialist and the issues of Unigenitus, Jansenism, and Gallicanism -- 8. Contributor to the Histoire des Ouvrages des Savans: Journalism in the service of
• The Character of Seventeenth-Century French Protestantism and the Place of the Huguenot Refuge following the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes Thirty-seven years ago the late Emile-G. Leonard regretted that there were so few historical studies of seventeenth-century French Protestantism and no general 1 historical synthesis for the period as a whole. At the time Leonard's observation was accurate. Seventeenth-century French Protestantism traditionally remained a questionable and problematical subject for historians. All too frequently historians neglected it in favor of emphasizing its origins in the second-half of the sixteenth century and its renascence since the French Revolution. When the rare historian broke his silence and considered French Protestantism in the seventeenth-century, was meager and generally ambivalent or negative. The historiographer his treatment of seventeenth-century French Protestantism could only cite the outstanding works of Jean Pannier and Orentin Douen, which taken together emphasized the new pre℗Ư eminence of Parisian Protestantism in the seventeenth century, and the genuine works of synthesis by John Vienot and Matthieu Lelievre, which again had to be placed side by side in order to complete coverage of the whole of the seventeenth 2 century. The only true intellectual history of seventeenth-century French Protestantism was the study by Albert Monod, which, however, dealt with the second-half of the century and, then, only in the broad context of both Protestant 3 and Catholic thought responding to the challenge of modern rationalism