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This vol. has been built upon all of the known parish register & census evidence bearing upon the changing size of France's Huguenot population over the course of the period between the Edict of Nantes & its Revocation -- specifically, upon census figures or annual totals of baptisms for any Protestant church or community for which such evidence spans 40 or more years of the cent. This national investigation is offered in the hope that it can ...

This volume considers the March 1560 conspiracy of Amboise and subsequent plots devised later that year to remove the young King Francis II from the sway of his chief advisors of the house of Guise and improve the legal situation of France¿s Protestant movement. New and rediscovered evidence reveals the conspiracies to have been more closely linked to the network of Reformed churches within France and to John Calvin in Geneva than previously u...

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The major changes experienced by France's cities over the period from the end of the middle ages to the eve of the Revolution are explored by six French and North American historians.

Die von der BBC produzierte Filmbiografie über den britischen Physiker Stephen Hawking, grandios gespielt von Benedict Cumberbatch.Bei dem jungen und hochbegabten Physikstudenten Stephen Hawking wird die verheerende Nervenkrankheit ALS diagnostiziert. Die Ärzte befürchten, dass ihm nur wenige Jahre bleiben, bevor er seinen Körper nicht mehr kontrollieren kann und langsam sterben wird. Mit Unterstützung seiner Eltern, seiner Freunde und seiner ...

This sweeping book tells the story of Calvinism's origins, expansion, and impact across Europe from the upheavals of the early Reformation to the end of the seventeenth century. The faith's fundamental doctrines, diverse ecclesiastical institutions, and significant consequences for lived experience are all explored, revealing the ongoing interplay between a dynamic religious tradition and the worlds in which it took root. "This is a rare and ...

Fifty years after the beginning of the debate about the 'general crisis of the seventeenth century, ' and thirty years after Theodore K. Rabb's reformulation of it as the 'European struggle for stability, ' this volume returns to the fundamental questions raised by the long-running discussion: What continent-wide patterns of change can be discerned in European history across the centuries from the Renaissance to the French Revolutio

This book examines the history of a single French community over the full course of the civil wars.

Combining the efforts of French and North American scholars, "Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France" contains six original studies exploring important and previously overlooked aspects of French urban history under the Ancien Regime. These essays are preceded by an extensive introduction which places them in their historical and historiographic context and surveys the major changes experienced by France's cities over the period from ...