1st Edition
Huguenot Prophecy and Clandestine Worship in the Eighteenth Century 'The Sacred Theatre of the Cévennes'
By Georgia Cosmos
Copyright 2005
230 Pages
by
Routledge
230 Pages
by
Routledge
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Following Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, French protestants faced the stark choice of abandoning their religion, or defying the law. Many fled abroad, whilst others continued to meet clandestinely for worship and to organise resistance to government policy, culminating in the bloody Camisard rebellion of 1702-10. During this period of conflict and repression, a distinct... Read more
Contents: List of illustrations and maps; Acknowledgements; Note on citations; Introduction. Part I The London Context: The French churches in London; Huguenot storytellers in London in the 18th century. Part II The Cévennes: Forbidden assemblies: clandestine worship in the désert; The prophesyings: entranced preaching, prayers, exhortations and predictions of deliverance in the désert; The call to arms: Pont-de-Montvert, July 1702. Part III Contemporary Reactions in London: Trial by fire at Sérignan: an apocalyptic event in the Cévennes war and its echoes abroad; Broadsides, dialogues and pasquinades on the streets of London: sketches of the Camisard inspirés in printed libels; Examen du Théâtre Sacré. Part IV Conclusion. Appendices; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Georgia Cosmos is a Fellow at the University of Melbourne, Australia.
’... this is an important book both for students of Huguenot history and those interested in a little-known but revealing episode in the intellectual history of early Enlightenment England.’ Proceeding of the Huguenot Society
