Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Illustrations vii
4. Preface x
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. PART ONE :EUROPE FALLS APART
7. Chapter one .The Native Land people and institutions 3
8. Chapter two .Renaissance Kingship and Noble Subjects 12
9. Chapter three .The Special Relationship 24
10. Chapter four. The Power of the Word 31
11. Chapter five. Every Man His Own Priest 42
12. Chapter six .The French Church, Humanism and the Pre-Reform 51
13. Chapter seven. ‘God Will Change the World’ 63
14. Chapter eight. Calvin the way, the truth and the life 75
15. Chapter nine. Geneva the experiment and the experience 84
16. PART TWO: A CHURCH FORMS
17. Chapter ten. Persecution and Growth 99
18. Chapter eleven. Why Be a Huguenot? 107
19. Chapter twelve. A Party Forms 122
20. Chapter thirteen .Towards War 134
21. Chapter fourteen. A Kingdom Divided 146
22. Chapter fifteen. Battle, Murder and Deadly Consequences 156
23. Chapter sixteen .The Massacre of St Bartholomew’s Day 167
24. PART THREE: RELIGIOUS WARS
25. Chapter seventeen. A Failing State 179
26. Chapter eighteen .The Struggle Intensifies 195
27. Chapter nineteen. Henry IV, King of France 208
28. Chapter twenty .The Edict of Nantes 224
29. Chapter twenty- one. The Regime of the Edict 236
30. Chapter twenty- two. Catholic Reformation 244
31. Chapter twenty- three. Ventures Too Far 254
32. Chapter twenty- four. The Great Siege 262
33. PART FOUR: 1629–1661. A GOLDEN AGE
34. Chapter twenty- five .‘The Little Flock’ 271
35. Chapter twenty- six .The Eye of the Storm huguenot lives and conditions 283
36. Chapter twenty- seven. A Pastoral and Spiritual Crisis 301
37. Chapter twenty- eight. Revision or Reunion? 307
38. PART FIVE: REVOCATION
39. Chapter twenty- nine. Uncertain Times 317
40. Chapter thirty. Mars Ascendant 326
41. Chapter thirty- one. Temptations and Trials 336
42. Chapter thirty- two. Towards Resolution 343
43. Chapter thirty- three. Force Majeure 353
44. Chapter thirty- four. Aftermath 359
45. Chapter thirty- five. Diaspora 369
46. Chapter thirty- six .Huguenotism Recovers its Soul war in the cévennes 376
47. Chapter thirty- seven. Sous La Croix 384
48. Afterword: Strangers and Citizens 388
49. Glossary 392
50. Notes 396
51. Further Reading 441
52. Index 451