Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559–1685 (Hardcover)

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.