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Article: Theodore de Beze (1519-1605).(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- March 22, 2008
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Irena Backus, ed. Theodore de Beze (1519-1605).
Actes du Colloque de Geneve (septembre 2005). Travaux d'Humanisme et Renaissance 424. Geneva: Librairie Droz S. A., 2007. 598 pp. index. illus. tbls. CHF 135. ISBN: 978-2-600-01118-1.
The most successful conferences are those that leave a sense of having advanced the field by challenging received views and bringing new perspectives. This can be said of the 2005 colloquium held in Geneva to mark the 400th anniversary of the death of Theodore Beza. Naturally, the undisputed leader of the Reformed churches in the late sixteenth century is not an unknown figure, and his importance has long been recognized, if ...