Brethren in Christ a Calvinist network in Reformation Europe
This groundbreaking book explores the migration of Calvinist refugees in Europe during the Reformation, across a century of persecution, exile and minority existence. Ole Peter Grell follows the fortunes of some of the earliest Reformed merchant families, forced to flee from the Tuscan city of Lucca...
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2011
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| Collection: | Cambridge Books Online - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. The start of the Calvinist network: the journey from Lucca, via Lyon, to Paris
- 2. A European network takes shape. the continuation of the Calvinist diaspora: Germany, the Netherlands, and England
- 3. The Calvinist network and the Thirty Years War
- 4. The collections for Calvinist exiles in England, Scotland and Ireland
- 5. The collections for Calvinist exiles in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland, and France
- 6. The benevolence of wealthy, individual 'Brethren in Christ'