Toleration and Religious Identity The Edict of Nantes and its Implications in France, Britain and Ireland

by Whelan, Ruth

• ISBN13: 9781851824816
• ISBN10: 1851824812
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-03-01
• Publisher: Four Courts Press

Summary

The Edict of Nantes, passed in 1598, established an uneasy truce between the Protestants and Roman Catholics in France. This volume traces the evolution of French Protestantism from sectarianism in the 16th century, to social conformity and ambivalence in the 17th and, in the 18th, to an increasing openness to other traditions.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	9	(1)
List of Abbreviations	10	(1)
Acknowledgements	11	(1)
Editors' Note	12	(1)
List of Contributors	13	(3)
Chronology	16	(5)
Introduction
The other '98	21	(20)
Ruth Whelan
I: COMMEMORATION AND IDENTITY
From the Edict of Nantes to ecumenism	41	(13)
Jean Delumeau
Ruth Whelan
Carol Baxter
Identity and commemoration: French Protestants and the quartercentenary of Edict of Nantes	54	(19)
Yves Bizeul
Ruth Whelan
Carol Baxter
II: WAR AND PEACE
Identity and violence: French Protestants and the early Wars of Religion	73	(19)
Denis Crouzet
Ruth Whelan
Carol Baxter
`Peace must come from us': friendship pacts between the confessions during the Wars of Religion	92	(15)
Olivier Christin
Ruth Whelan
Carol Baxter
III: EDICTS OF PACIFICATION
Religious or secular? The Edict of Nantes, reformation and state formation in late sixteenth-century France	107	(21)
Bernard Cottret
An Edict and its antecedents: the pacification of Nantes and political culture in later sixteenth-century France	128	(21)
Mark Greengrass
IV: AN INTOLERANT TOLERATION
Intolerance, friendship and urbanity: Balzac and his Huguenot correspondents	149	(17)
Olivier Millet
Ruth Whelan
Carol Baxter
Pluralism, persecution and toleration in France and Britain in the seventeenth century	166	(13)
John Miller
Repressive toleration: the Huguenots in early eighteenth-century Dublin	179	(20)
Ruth Whelan
V: TOLERATION
The Enlightenment and toleration	199	(11)
Alan Kors
Toleration in later eighteenth-century Ireland: Voltaire and the Dublin and Hibernian magazines, 1762--84	210	(23)
Graham Gargett
VI: Toleration and Reconciliation
Conviction and toleration: a theological and ethical appraisal	233	(16)
Alain Blancy
Towards a culture of tolerance	249	(13)
Alan D. Falconer
Moving beyond sectarianism: religion, conflict, and reconciliation in contemporary Northern Ireland	262	(15)
Cecelia Clegg
Joseph Liechty
Glossary	277	(3)
Bibliography	280	(17)
Index	297