Geneva, Refuge and Migrations (16th-17th Centuries). Foreword

Abstract

These splendid papers bring us new insight into the entangled motives which account for the movement between Protestant and Catholic polities in the seventeenth century, when some form of religious coexistence was possible either within polities or in nearby polities. Evidence from the late sixteenth century is drawn on in these papers, too, but their major emphasis is on the decades when the Edict of Nantes allowed both Roman Catholic and Reformed worship and institutions in France, and Prot...