This thesis discusses the Anglo-Huguenot alliance during the period from 1562 to 1593.

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Print culture was a fundamental site in which new ideas about England’s role in world affairs were debated in the latter half of the sixteenth century. Print changed the ways in which new discoveries, proposals, grievances, and questions were assessed, and not always to the desired effect. In the face of the sphinx-like power of the press, a wide array of strategies emerged to control it. But people at many levels of the publishing process could use the rhetoric of the text, and of the printed book, to rearrange the relationships between authors and readers, to upset the thrust of a particular line of argument, to alter the aesthetic, moral, or pragmatic judgment a reader might exercise, or in a more subtle way to change the terms of the issue at hand. In view of the diversity of these possibilities, this report follows figures known to the London print world, some authors, some printers, and examines how they acted, reacted, and worked through, issues that arose from being on the cusp of England’s relationship with a wider world. / text

Thesis (MA)--University of Stellenbosch, 2006. / Bibliography. Also available vie the Internet

Henri Basnage de Beauval (1656-1710) est né dans une famille protestante de la noblesse normande. Arrière-petit-fils, petit-fils, neveu, cousin et frère de pasteurs, il choisit pourtant de devenir avocat, à l’instar de son père, Henri Basnage de Franquesnay. Face à l’accélération des persécutions contre sa communauté confessionnelle, il prend la plume pour dénoncer la violation des consciences et proposer une solution pragmatique à son souverain, celle de la tolérance civile des religions. Un an après la publication de son traité, la Révocation de l’édit de Nantes l’oblige à se convertir au catholicisme et ce n’est qu’à l’été 1687 qu’il s’exile en Hollande où il retourne au protestantisme et commence une nouvelle vie. Au Refuge huguenot, il retrouve son frère Jacques Basnage ainsi que le philosophe Pierre Bayle qui lui offre l’opportunité de devenir journaliste et de faire son entrée dans la République des Lettres. Grâce à son Histoire des ouvrages des savans (1687-1709), il participe à la diffusion des connaissances scientifiques et littéraires et s’érige en intermédiaire entre les lettrés européens. Il propose également une révision du Dictionnaire universel d’Antoine Furetière et réédite les œuvres juridiques de son père. Continuant de défendre l’idée que la tolérance civile des religions est la solution la plus acceptable face au morcellement de la chrétienté, il participe également à la controverse inter et intra confessionnelle de son temps, s’opposant en particulier au pasteur Pierre Jurieu. Il décède à La Haye en 1710, loin de sa patrie. Par une approche à la fois sociale, culturelle et intellectuelle, cette biographie interroge les singularités de l’identité d’un huguenot de la fin du XVIIe siècle, mais également la façon dont ce dernier perçoit le monde et se comporte face aux obstacles auxquels il est confronté. / Henri Basnage de Beauval (1656-1710) was born in a protestant family of the Norman nobility. Great grandson, grandson, nephew, cousin and brother of ministers, he nevertheless chooses to become a lawyer like his father, Henri Basnage de Franquesnay. Facing the growing persecutions against his confessional community, he writes to denounce the violation of consciences and propound a pragmatic solution to his king, that of civil tolerance of religions. One year after the publication of his treaty, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes forces him to convert to Catholicism and it is only during summer 1687 that he exiles himself to Holland where he returns to Protestantism and begins a new life. In the Huguenot Refuge, he finds his brother Jacques Basnage and the philosopher Pierre Bayle who offers him the opportunity to become a journalist and to enter into the Republic of Letters.Thanks to his Histoire des ouvrages des savans (1687-1709), he takes part in the dissemination of scientific and literary knowledge and stands as an intermediary between the European scholars. He also offers a revision of Antoine Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel and republishes his father’s legal works. Continuing to defend the idea that the civil tolerance of religions is the most acceptable solution to face the Christianity fragmentation, he also takes part in the internal and external confessional controversy of his time, opposing in particular the pastor Pierre Jurieu. He dies in The Hague in 1710, far away from his homeland. By a social, cultural and intellectual approach, this biography aims at questioning the singularities of a Huguenot identity at the end of the seventeenth century, but also the way the latter perceives the world and behaves in front of the obstacles he has to face.

Henri Justel (Paris 1620 - Londres 1693) est un érudit français huguenot anglophile, membre éminent de la République des Lettres Il a été peu étudié en France à cause de son apport littéraire inexistant si on fait abstraction de sa riche correspondance et ce, en dépit de la brillante académie privée internationale qu'il animait à Paris, de son vaste réseau et de ses centres d'intérêt divers et variés et touchant autant les humanités que les sciences. C'est l'un deux, Foi et Raison, qui est exploré ici tant dans son contexte d'époque que dans le cercle de Justel. Ce débat entre la Science et la Foi a conduit à classer les idées philosophiques de beaucoup de grands esprits du XVIIème siècle. Pourra-t-il en être de même pour Justel? / Henri Justel (Paris 1620 - London 1693) was a french, huguenot and anglophile erudite and a important member of the République des Lettres. He is not so wellknown in France because his poor literary contribution in spite of his very rich correspondence, of the brilliant private academy he was hosting in Paris, of his large network of relations and of his various interests in sciences as well as in humanities. One of those, Faith vs Reason, is to be dealt with overhere, either in his historical context or in Justel's circle. This very debate between Science and Faith lead to classify the philosophical options of many famous characters of the seventeenth century. Shall we be able to do so about Justel?

Mémoire numérisé par la Direction des bibliothèques de l'Université de Montréal.

<p>This dissertation examines the development of Huguenot confessional identity and political strategy under the Edict of Nantes through sermons. Here, sermons serve as a vital medium of ideological exchange, shaping and reflecting the mental world of France's Protestant population, while acting as a source of dialogue between Huguenot ministers, their parishioners and readers, and the crown. As a result, this study demonstrates the cultural tools that influenced how the Huguenot population made sense of their position in France in the seventeenth century, and it shows that, while Huguenots lost much of their effective political power after 1629, their ministers were active in the decades after through informal but telling channels, instructing their parishioners about proper civic and political belief, and positing for their various audiences a view of the French polity – and of its absolutist monarchy – that included a legitimate place for the Huguenot population.</p> <p>The introduction and the first chapter provide the historical and historiographical background, while also offering a detailed explanation of the training and vocation of Huguenot ministers, shedding light on their sermons and their social and professional networks. Chapters two and three provide the heart of the argument, exploring the elements of the sermons that emphasized, first, the necessity of religious particularism for Huguenots within France and, second, their abiding devotion to the crown. Together, these dual elements of Huguenot identity meant that they were negotiating their own vision for the kingdom and their place within it. The final three chapters examine the prevalence and significance of the Huguenot dual identity in diverse sermon themes, while also showing its legacy beyond the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.</p> <p>This dissertation provides an important contribution to Reformation and French historiography, while also complicating notions about religious identity and the development of absolutist thought by demonstrating a confessionally-distinct political activism that is not often recognized. It also reveals the interwoven nature of religion and politics in the Reformation era, here as it is manifested in sermons.</p> / Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Dans les années 1960, Peter Laslett fut à l'origine d'une révolution dans les études lockiennes, donnant lieu à un renouvellement de l'intérêt porté à « l'intention » de l'auteur. Ce champ ayant été largement exploré, les historiens se penchent à présent sur la question de la « réception » de la politique de Locke. Toutefois, les études traitent essentiellement de sa réception en Angleterre et aux Etats-Unis, si bien que la question de sa réception sur le Continent reste un champ vierge d'étude. On sait pourtant que Locke passa une longue partie de sa vie en exil, où il évolua dans les cercles huguenots du Refuge hollandais. C'est à leur contact que ses idées s'affinèrent et après son retour en Angleterre, ses vieux amis en assurèrent la connaissance dans toute l'Europe. Mon travail de thèse vise donc à montrer l'influence qu'exercèrent les huguenots du Refuge sur la fortune de l'œuvre politique de Locke, en analysant le rôle « d'intermédiaires » qu'ils jouèrent dans la diffusion journalistique, la traduction et l'édition de l'œuvre politique de Locke dans la République des Lettres, conjurant par là le sort vouant Locke à n'être connu qu'en Angleterre. / In the 1960s, Peter Laslett sparked some kind of revolution in Lockian studies, which rekindled an interest in the “intention” of the author. The field has been widely explored and historians now tend to focus their attention on the question of the “reception” of Locke's politics. However such studies mainly deal with the reception of Locke in England and America, leaving the field of the reception of Locke on the Continent virtually untrodden. And yet, it is a well-known fact that Locke spent great part of his life in exile, notably in Holland (1683-1689), where he moved in Huguenot circles. This allowed him to hone his ideas, and after his return to England, his good old friends took it upon themselves to spread his ideas in the whole of Europe.The aim of my doctoral thesis is to show how much the fortune of Locke's politics owes to the Huguenots of the Refuge, by studying the role of “intermediaries” that they played in reviewing Locke's works in the periodical press, in translating and editing Locke's political works in the Republic of Letters, thereby evading the ill fortune dooming Locke to being only known in England.

Théologien du Grand Siècle, minor de la République des Lettres, Isaac Papin (1657-1709) est né calviniste. Il appartient à l'École théologique dite de Saumur : fils spirituel du théologien novateur Claude Pajon (son oncle), il adopte les théories de ce dernier sur la grâce et, lecteur de Spinoza dès 1681, développe une conception originale de la tolérance à une période d’effervescence sur cette question dans la pensée protestante. Au moment de la révocation de l'édit de Nantes, Papin rejoint le Refuge : il est alors proche de citoyens des Lettres comme Jacques Lenfant, Jean Le Clerc et Pierre Bayle. Il s’installe d'abord en Angleterre où il est ordonné prêtre de l'Église anglicane puis se rend aux Provinces-Unies, puis dans le Saint-Empire où il tente de s'installer comme pasteur d'une Église wallonne. Son identité de novateur déclenche l'opposition de l'orthodoxe Pierre Jurieu (déjà ennemi de Pajon) qui l'empêche d'atteindre son but. Il décide alors de se convertir et revient en France en 1690, où il passe au catholicisme grâce à Bossuet. Jusqu’alors nomade huguenot de la République des Lettres, Papin se mue en catholique sédentaire dans sa ville natale, Blois : il devient l'un des acteurs de la controverse antiprotestante et se rapproche du jansénisme grâce à l’un de ses amis,également pasteur calviniste converti. En associant histoire sociale des réseaux théologiques et religieux et histoire des idées et des controverses, cette biographie intellectuelle retrace la trajectoire théologique particulière d’un converti du Grand Siècle passé de l’humanisme réformé de Saumur à un jansénisme entre Nicole et Quesnel. / Theologian of the Grand Siècle, minor of the Republic of Letters, Isaac Papin (1657-1709) was born Calvinist. He belongs to the so-called theological school “École de Saumur” : spiritual son of pioneering theologian Claude Pajon (his uncle), he adopts his theories on grace and, as Spinoza reader from 1680, he develops an original design of tolerance during a boom period on this issue in Protestant thought. At the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, Papin joins the Refuge : he is then close to Letters’ citizens such as Jacques Lenfant, Jean Le Clercand Pierre Bayle. He first moves to England where he is ordained priest of the Anglican Church. Then he goes to the United Provinces and to the Holy Empire, where he tries to settle as a pastor of a Walloon Church. His innovative identity triggers opposition from the Orthodox Pierre Jurieu (Pajon’s former enemy) that prevents him from reaching his goal. He decides to convert and returns to France in 1690, where he becomes a Catholic under the authority of Bossuet. Until then nomadic Huguenot of the Republic of Letters, Papin turns into a sedentary Catholic in his hometown, Blois.He becomes one of the actors of the anti-Protestant controversy and approaches the Jansenism thanks to a friend who is also a converted Calvinist pastor. By combining social history of theological and religious networks and history of ideas and controversies, this intellectual biography traces the particular path of a theologian converted of the Grand Siècle, from reformed humanism of Saumur to Jansenism, between Nicole and Quesnel.