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The Huguenots: Recommended Resources

The Huguenots

In the July 27, 1998, edition of Sports Illustrated, columnist Frank Deford lamented, “I am from a forgotten tribe. Not lost, you understand. That’s romantic: lost. My tribe is simply forgotten. I am a Huguenot. A French Huguenot. Who remembers us?”

If the number of books and Web sites is any indication, plenty of people remember the Huguenots and want to know who they were, what they believed, what they suffered, and where they went. Here are just some of the resources the authors and editors of this issue recommend.

Huguenots and their beliefs

History of the Rise of the Huguenots, by Henry M. BairdThe French Huguenots: Anatomy of Courage, by Janet GrayThe French Reformation, by Mark GreengrassThe Political Ideas of Pierre Viret, by Robert D. LinderTheodore Beza and the Quest for Peace in France, 1572-1598, by Scott M. ManetschAgrippa d’Aubigné’s Meditations sur les Pseaumes: A Protestant Genre for a Protestant Identity, by Alan D. Savage (forthcoming)Calvin, Geneva, and the Reformation, by Ronald S. Wallace”The French Confession of Faith,” at the Creeds of Christendom website

The French Reformed milieu

The Huguenots and French Opinion 1685-1787: The Enlightenment Debate on Toleration, by Geoffrey AdamsThe Cleaving of Christendom, by Warren H. CarrollSociety and Culture in Early Modern France, by Natalie Zemon DavisSociety and Culture in the Huguenot World, 1559-1685, by Raymond Mentzer and Andrew Spicer (forthcoming)Christianity under the Ancien Régime, 1648-1789, by W.R. Ward”The Path to Royal Absolutism,” in the Library of Congress exhibition Creating French Culture, at the Library of Congress website.

The Wars of Religion

Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris, by Barbara DiefendorfSaint Bartholomew’s Night, by Philippe Erlanger”Martyrs, Myths, and the Massacre: The Background of St. Bartholomew,” in American Historical Review 77 (1972), by Donald KelleyMyths about the St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacres, 1572-1576, by Robert KingdonTocsin pour un Massacre, la saison des Saint-Barthélemy, by Janine Garrison-Estèbe (in French)”Wars of Religion” from Le Poulet Gauche, www.lepg.org/wars.htm

Huguenot refugees

History of the Huguenot Emigration to America, by Charles W. BairdThe Huguenots in America: A Refugee People in New World Society, by Jon ButlerFrench Huguenots in English-Speaking Lands, by Horton and Marie-Hélène DaviesHuguenot Refugees in the Settling of Colonial America, by Peter S. GannonHuguenot Heritage: The History and Contribution of the Huguenots in Britain, by Robin D. GwynneThe Trail of the Huguenots in Europe, the United States, South Africa, and Canada, by G. Elmore ReamanMemory and Identity: Minority Survival among the Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora, edited by Bertrand van Ruymbeke and R.J. Sparks (forthcoming)”The Huguenot Historical Society,” www.hhs-newpaltz.org (with links to the Huguenot Web ring)

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