Theology, Politics and Letters at the Crossroads of European Civilization

Chapter 1 The Basnages of Rouen: Huguenot Avocats in the Parlement of Normandy and Pastors of the French Reformed Church

Chapter 2 The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in Rouen

Chapter 3 Refuge in Holland: Ministry in the Walloon Church of Rotterdam and the Republic of Letters in the Time of Pierre Bayle, 1685–1709

Chapter 4 Refuge in Holland: Ministry in the Walloon Church of The Hague and Protestant Diplomacy, 1710–23

Chapter 5 First Modern Historian of the Jews: Rational Criticism versus Xenophobia and the Wall of Silence

Chapter 6 Critic of Bossuet and Historian of the Protestant Churches: The Position of Dissenters in an Absolute Monarchy

Chapter 7 Religious Controversialist and the Issues of Unigenitus , Jansenism, and Gallicanism

Chapter 8 Contributor to the Histoire des Ouvrages des Savons : Journalism in the Service of the Republic of Letters

Chapter 9 States’ Historian of the Dutch First Stadholderless Period and the Republic under William III

Chapter 10 The Progress of History from Barbarism to Civilization: Social Change in Duelling and Chivalric Orders

Chapter 11 Toward a Redefinition of Calvinist Theology and Society? The Problem of Religious Toleration and Freedom of Conscience

Chapter 12 Conclusion The Role of the Baylean Moderate Party in the Second Huguenot Refuge