Theology, Politics and Letters at the Crossroads of European Civilization

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-8

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2. From the City of Joan of Arc to the United Provinces of William III and the grand pensionary Heinsius

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 9-9

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   2. The Basnages of Rouen: Huguenot Avocats in the Parlement of Normandy and Pastors of the French Reformed Church

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 11-35

   3. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in Rouen

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 37-53

   4. Refuge in Holland: Ministry in the Walloon Church of Rotterdam and the Republic of Letters in the Time of Pierre Bayle, 1685–1709

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 54-121

   5. Refuge in Holland: Ministry in the Walloon Church of The Hague and Protestant Diplomacy, 1710–23

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 122-178

3. Dimensions of the Huguenot Intellectual of the “Diaspora”

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 179-179

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   2. First Modern Historian of the Jews: Rational Criticism versus Xenophobia and the Wall of Silence

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 181-202

   3. Critic of Bossuet and Historian of the Protestant Churches: The Position of Dissenters in an Absolute Monarchy

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 203-231

   4. Religious Controversialist and the Issues of Unigenitus, Jansenism, and Gallicanism

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 233-253

   5. Contributor to the Histoire des Ouvrages des Savons: Journalism in the Service of the Republic of Letters

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 255-267

   6. States’ Historian of the Dutch First Stadholderless Period and the Republic under William III

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 269-290

   7. The Progress of History from Barbarism to Civilization: Social Change in Duelling and Chivalric Orders

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 291-295

   8. Toward a Redefinition of Calvinist Theology and Society? The Problem of Religious Toleration and Freedom of Conscience

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 297-306

   9. Conclusion The Role of the Baylean Moderate Party in the Second Huguenot Refuge

      • Gerald Cerny

      Pages 307-314

4. Back Matter

   Pages 315-354

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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 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.

• Edict of Nantes
• Europe
• Pierre Bayle
• The Republic
• absolute monarchy
• diplomacy
• huguenot

Policies and ethics