:Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685

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List of illustrations List of tables Notes on contributors Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Etre protestant Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer 2. Preaching, printing, psalm-singing: the making and unmaking of the Reformed church in Lyon, 1550-1572 Timothy Watson 3. Religious polemic and Huguenot self-perception and identity, 1554-1619 Luc Racaut 4. Confessionalisation in France? Critical reflections and new evidence Philip Benedict 5. Huguenot petitioning during the wars of religion Penny Roberts 6. Informal networks in sixteenth-century French Protestantism Mark Greengrass 7. The Edict of Nantes and its institutions Raymond A. Mentzer 8. 'Speaking the King's language': the Huguenot magistrates of Castres and Pau Amanda Eurich 9. The Huguenot academies: preparing for an uncertain future Karin Maag 10. Huguenot poor relief and health care in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries Martin Dinges 11. 'Qui est de Dieu, oit la parole de Dieu' the Huguenots and their temples Andrew Spicer 12. 'Ensevelir honnestement les corps': funeral corteges and Huguenot culture Bernard Roussel 13. Huguenot militancy and the seventeenth-century wars of religion Alan James 14. Epilogue Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer Index.