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The Construction of Reformed
Identity in Jean Crespins Livre des Martyrs

Benveen 1554 and 1570, the Genevan printer Jean Crespin compiled seven French-language editions of his martyrology. In The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespis Livre des Martyrs, Jameson Tucker explores how this martyrology helped to shape a distinct Reformed identity for its Protestant readership, with a particular interest in the stranger groups that Crespin included within his Livre des Martyrs.

By comparing each edition of the Livre des Martyrs, this book examines Crespins editorial processes and considers the impact that he intended his work to have on his readers. Through this, it provides a window into the Reformed Church and its members during the outbreak of the French Wars of Religion. This is the first volume to comparatively study all seven French-language editions of Crespins Livre des Martyrs and will be essential reading for all scholars of the Reformation and early modern France.

Jameson Tucker is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth. His previous publications include From Fire to Iron: Martyrs and Massacre Victims in Genevan Martyrology in Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Early Modern Europe, edited by Liz Tingle and Jonathan Willis (2015).

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The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespins Livre des Martyrs

Jameson Tucker

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Names: Tucker, Jameson, author.
Title: The construction of reformed identity in Jean Crespin's Livre des martyrs / Dr. Jameson Tucker.
Description: New York : Routledge, 2017. | Series: Routledge research in early modern history | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016049695| ISBN 9781138125629 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781315203843 (ebook : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Crespin, Jean, -1572. Livre des martyrs. | MartyrologiesHistory and criticism. | Christian hagiographyHistory and criticism. | MartyrdomChristianityHistorySources. | Church history16th century.
Classification: LCC BR1608.5.C743 T83 2017 | DDC 272dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016049695

ISBN:978-1-138-12562-9 (hbk)
ISBN:978-1-315-20384-3 (ebk)

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For Laura

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This book is based on my doctoral thesis, which was supervised by Penny Roberts at the University of Warwick. Id like to thank her for all of her advice and direction, both then and since, in providing me with focus, advice, keen questions, and the necessary deadlines. Id also like to thank my lecturers and tutors at the University of Birmingham, and Queens University, including James Stayer, who first introduced me to the history of the Reformation, and Graeme Murdock, Alec Ryrie and Elaine Fulton, who have taught me much both about what I research and how to do it. Since completing my PhD I have benefitted a great deal from the advice and assistance of Liz Tingle and all of my colleagues at the University of Plymouth.

The research for this book was made possible by the help and expertise of, amongst others, Ian Holt of the Solothurn Zentralbibliothek, Margaret Thompson of Westminster College Cambridge, the Huguenot Library, London, UCL Special Collections, and the library of the Socit de lHistoire du Protestantisme Franais in Paris. Professor Mark Greengrass has provided me with access to some key texts, as well as valuable advice and guidance during my research, while Dr Albert de Lange was able to assist me with a crucial text of Crespins on the Waldensians.

Id like to thank Laura Pilsworth for all of her help, and especially patience, in bringing this book to fruition, my copy-editor Penny Harper, who has done sterling work helping to prepare it, and my colleague James Daybell for the impetus he provided in getting this to publication.

I would not have been able to undertake this work without support from the Huguenot Society of London and the French Protestant Church, Soho Square, Mr Justice John Sutherland, and my family, to whom I owe a great deal of thanks.

Finally, above all, I would like to thank my wife, Laura, who has been a part of this project since the beginning, providing me with advice and support while working hard on her own several research projects.

Writing about the 1523 execution of Henry Voez and Jean Esch in the second edition of his martyrology, Jean Crespin explained that they died for the Evangelical doctrine, and for the Apostolic writings, like good and true Christians.1 It was dying for the Gospel and for correct doctrine that made these two men true Christians in Crespins eyes, and yet it is well known that he altered their confession of faith significantly, bringing their statements into line with those of his own Reformed Church.2 His motivations for doing so stemmed from a contemporary controversy about sacramental issues, but also from Crespins understanding of the essential nature of his Church.

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