Allan Tulchin

That Men Would Praise the Lord (eBook, PDF)

The Triumph of Protestantism in Nimes, 1530-1570

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Produktbeschreibung

That Men Would Praise the Lord breaks apart the process of mass conversion in the sixteenth century to explain why the Reformation occurred, using N?mes, the most Protestant town in France, as a case study. Protestantism was overwhelmingly successful in N?mes (since most people converted), but the process culminated in two bloody massacres of N?mes's remaining Catholics. Beginning in 1559, N?mes went through a revolutionary period comparable to 1789 in its intensity. Townspeople flocked to hear Protestant preachers and then took over Catholic churches, destroyed statues and stained glass, and zealously took part in the Wars of Religion, which convulsed France beginning in 1562. As the Protestant movement grew, it had to adapt to changing circumstances. N?mes's first Protestants were attracted to Calvin's theology. Later converts believed that the Church needed to be cleansed of its excesses to encourage moral reform and to assist the royal treasury. Iin the end, many converted because of peer pressure or under duress. Thus rather than argue that one factor - whether religious, economic, or political - explains the Reformation, Tulchin emphasizes that the Protestant movement was the result of compromises forged among its members. The conclusion extends his arguments to the rest of France. That Men Would Praise the Lord marries techniques from the social sciences, anthropology, and cultural history in an analytic narrative, resulting in a new, interdisciplinary theory of the Reformation.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199774272
• Artikelnr.: 38135039

Autorenporträt

Allan A. Tulchin completed his undergraduate education at Yale and Cambridge, and his doctorate at the University of Chicago. The results of his research on early modern French social and religious history have been published in prize-winning articles for the Journal of Modern History and French Historical Studies. He is currently an Assistant Professor of History at Shippensburg University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction 1
20 * 1.: Nîmes: A Sixteenth
Century City 1
48 * 2.: The Creation of a Protestant Community: Nîmes, 1530
1547 1
40 * 3.: Growth and Crisis: Nîmes's Protestants, 1547
1559 1
36 * 4.: The Religious Crisis begins, 1559
1560 1
51 * 5.: . The Cahier de Doléances, 1561 1
43 * 6.: The Consolidation of the Protestant Movement, 1561
1562 1
60 * 7.: Rising and Falling: The Protestant Movement in Nîmes, 1562
1570 1
44 * Conclusion. The Reformation in Nîmes in Comparative Perspective 1
27 * Appendix A. The Evolution of the Protestant Movement in Nîmes, 1560
1562 1 * Appendix B. Constructing the Notarial Database 1
35 * Bibliography 1
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