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Sunshine, Glenn S., 1958
Reforming French protestantism : the development of Huguenot
ecclesiastical institutions, 15571572 / Glenn S. Sunshine.
p. cm. (Sixteenth century essays & studies ; v. 66)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 1-931112-28-2 (casebound : alk. paper)
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SIXTEENTH CENTURY ESSAYS & STUDIES SERIES
GENERAL EDITOR
RAYMOND A. MENTZER
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA
EDITORIAL BOARD OF SIXTEENTH CENTURY ESSAYS & STUDIES
ELAINE BEILIN | ROGER MANNING |
Framingham State College | Cleveland State University, Emeritus |
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University of Massachusetts, Emerita | University of Virginia |
BARBARA B. DIEFENDORF | HELEN NADER |
Boston University | University of Arizona |
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University of New Mexico, Emerita | Goshen College |
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University of Iowa | Truman State University, Emeritus |
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University of Wisconsin, Emeritus | University of Toronto |
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University of WisconsinMilwaukee
This book is lovingly dedicated to my wife, Lynn, whose worth is more than rubies.
Contents
The Problem of the French Reformation |
The Nature of Early French Protestantism |
The National and Provincial Synods |
Between the Province and the Local Church |
The French Reformed Diaconate |
The Consistory |
Church Institutions and the Wider World |
French Reformed Polity: Local and National Influences |
Abbreviations
ANS | Acts of the National Synods, taken from MSS, are designated by synod number, location, and year. E.g., ANS, 1Paris1559. |
Auzire | Provincial synods, classes, and colloquies of Bas Languedoc. Socit de lHistoire du Protestantisme franais MS 566, vol. 1 (Auzire collection 68). |
Articles polytiques | MS located in the Bibliothque Publique de Grenoble; published in Documents protestants indits du XVIe sicle (1872), and Bulletin dinformation de lEglise Rforme de France 18 (October 1956): 24. All references are to the 1872 edition. |
Aymon | Tous les synodes nationaux des Eglises Reformes de France (1710). Page numbers refer to vol. 1, second pagination. |
BN | Bibliothque Nationale de France, Paris. |
BSHPF | Bulletin de la Socit de lHistoire du Protestantisme franais |
CO | Ioannis Calvini Opera Quae Supersunt Omnia. Edited by G. Baum, Ed. Cunitz and E. Reuss. Brunswick: Schwetzke & Sons, 18631900. |
DE | Discipline ecclsiastique, followed by date of issue. |
Geneva BPU | Bibliothque Publique et Universitaire, Geneva. |
Histoire ecclsiastique | Histoire ecclsiastique des Eglises Rformes au royaume de France. Edited by G. Baum and Ed. Cunitz. Les Classiques du Protestantisme franais XVIe, XVIIe et XVIIIe sicles, 2 vols. Paris: Fischbacher, 1883. |
Le Mans | Papier et registre du Consistoire de leglise du Mans, in Recueil de pices indites pour servir lhistoire de la Rforme et de la Ligue dans le Maine. Le Mans: Monnoyer, 1867. |
OS | Joannis Calvini Opera Selecta. 5 vols. Edited by Petrus Barth and Guilelmus Niesel. Munich: Chr. Kaiser, 192836. |
Pithou | Nicholas Pithou, LHistoire ecclsiastique de lEglise rforme de la ville de Troyes, taken from Bibliothque de la Socit de lHistoire du Protestantisme franais, Paris, MS 440. |
Quick | Synodicon in Gallia reformata (1692). References include synod number, location, and date. Page numbers refer to vol. 1, second pagination. |
Rb | Bodleian Library, Oxford, Rawlinson MS D638; second series of acts of the national synods. |
RCP | Registres de la Compagnie des Pasteurs de Genve au temps de Calvin. Vol. 1: 15461553. Edited by R. M. Kingdon and J.-F. Bergier. Geneva: Droz, 1964. |
Roussel, Discipline | Text of DE 1559 reconstructed by Bernard Roussel in La Discipline des Eglises rformes de France en 1559: Un royaume sans clerg? in De lHumanisme aux Lumires, Bayle et le protestantisme (1996). |
RSV | Revised Standard Version of the Bible. |
Wa | Bibliothque Wallonne, The Hague, MS 2324; first copy of DE 1559. |
Wb | Bibliothque Wallonne, The Hague, MS 2324; second copy of DE 1559. |
The National Synods
1. Paris | 1559 |
2. Poitiers | 1561 |
3. Orlans | 1562 |
4. Lyon | 1563 |
5. Paris | 1565 |
6. Vertueil | 1567 |
7. La Rochelle | 1571 |
8. Nmes | 1572 |
9. St. Foy | 1578 |
10. Figeac | 1579 |
11. La Rochelle | 1581 |
12. Vitr | 1583 |
13. Montauban | 1594 |
14. Saumur | 1596 |
15. Montpellier | 1598 |
16. Gergeau | 1601 |
17. Gap | 1603 |
18. La Rochelle | 1607 |
19. St. Maixant | 1609 |
20. Privas | 1612 |
21. Tonneins | 1614 |
22. Vitr | 1617 |
23. Alais | 1620 |
24. Charenton | 1623 |
25. Castres | 1626 |
26. Charenton | 1631 |
27. Alenon | 1637 |
28. Charenton | 1645 |
29. Loudun | 1660 |
Acknowledgments
As I look back at the long process of producing this book from the initial research for my doctoral dissertation through revising and editing the manuscript, I am struck by just how very many people and institutions gave me help, support, and encouragement along the way. Though I cannot possibly thank each individual who contributed to the book, it would be the ultimate in ingratitude if I did not acknowledge the contributions of a number of those who made this work possible.
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