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That men would praise the Lord : the triumph of protestantism in Nîmes, 1530-1570 / Allan A. Tulchin

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Tulchin, Allan A., 1968-
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010.
Physical Description
xxii, 297 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

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Contents
Introduction -- Nîmes : a sixteenth-century city -- The creation of a Protestant community : Nîmes, 1530-1547 -- Growth and crisis : Nîmes's Protestants, 1547-1559 -- The religious crisis begins, 1559-1560 -- The Cahier de Doléances, 1561 -- The consolidation of the Protestant Movement, 1561-1562 -- Rising and falling : the Protestant Movement in Nîmes, 1562-1570 -- Conclusion: The Reformation in Nîmes in comparative perspective -- Appendix A: The evolution of the Protestant Movement in Nîmes, 1560-1562 -- Appendix B: Constructing the notarial database.
Summary
""Allan Tulchin gives us remarkable new insight into the connections between religious conversion, politics, and violence in Nimes, a stronghold of the Reformation. That Men Would Praise the Lord is an important and powerfully argued contribution to the history of the religious wars in France:'Natalie Zemon Davis, Adjunct Professor of History and Anthropology and Professor of Medieval Studies, University of Toronto" ""Through a meticulously researched and constructed case study on the spread of Protestantism in Nimes, Tulchin leads us to new paths and horizons in Reformation history. He prefers the how to the why. Nevertheless, in his analytical passages, he brilliantly shows the links between cognitive dissonance, economics, social structure, and intellectual life. This is a book that will further our understanding not only of Early Modern France but also that of the whole Reformation Era:'Myriam Yardeni, Professor of History, University Of Haifa" "That Men Would Praise the Lord breaks apart the process of mass conversion in the sixteenth century to explain why the Reformation occurred, using Nimes, the most Protestant town in France, as a case study. Protestantism was overwhelmingly successful in Nimes (since most people converted), but the process culminated in two bloody massacres of Nimes's remaining Catholics. Beginning in 1559, Nimes 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 156z. As the Protestant movement grew, it had to adapt to changing circumstances. Nimes'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. In the end, many converted because of peer pressure or under duress. Thus, rather than argue that one factorwhether religious, economic, or politicalexplains 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."--BOOK JACKET.
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9780199736522 (alk. paper)
0199736529 (alk. paper)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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