The Civil Magistrates of Geneva and the Placement of Pastors in France on the Eve of the First War of Religion (1562)
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Gianmarco Braghi
Abstract
This article analyses excerpts from letters sent by French Reformed congregations and politically-engaged Calvinist laymen in 1562. In these dispatches, the churches, lay notables, and local magistrates of Montpellier, Grenoble, Gap, Nîmes, Issoire and Rouen requested pastors to Geneva or thanked the town’s authorities for ministers previously sent there. However, these six letters were not addressed to the Venerable Company of Pastors, but specifically to the syndics and Small Council of Geneva. While the role of the Company in the sending of Geneva-trained pastors to France on the eve of the Wars of Religion is known, the participation of the Republic of Geneva’s political authorities in these activities needs more scholarly attention. This article seeks to offer a discussion of this topic through analysis of correspondence and other sources held in the Archives d’État de Genève.
Acknowledgments
Dr Braghi wishes to express his gratitude to Dr Graeme Murdock (Trinity College Dublin) for his comments on a first draft of this article. He also wishes to thank the Editorial Secretary of this journal, Helge Asbjørn Staxrud, for his patience and kind assistance throughout the publication process, as well as the anonymous reviewers for their insightful remarks. Translations, unless otherwise stated, are the author’s.
© 2017 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston
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- Frontmatter
- Music, Rhetoric, and the Edification of the Church in the Reformation: The Humanist Reconstruction of Modulata Recitatio
- The Polish Brethren versus the Hutterites: A Sacred Community?
- Some Aspects of Jean Gerson’s Legal Influence in Sixteenth Century England: The Issue of Epikeia
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