Article: Society and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559 to 1685.(Book Review)

Edited by Raymond A. Mentzer and Andrew Spicer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. xviii + 241 pp. $60.00 cloth.

The dozen essays collected in this book address two key questions: To what extent did the experience of religious intolerance and persecution contribute to the creation of a distinct Huguenot identity in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France, and how were the theological differences that set members of the French Reformed Church apart from the Catholic majority embedded in social practice and cultural values that widened the gap between the majority and minority faiths? Spanning the century and a quarter that separated the church's ...

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