Raymond A. Mentzer istorians of the Reformation can readily identify the principal liturgical
transformations initiated by John Calvin and his associates. Reformed theologians, in …

Since the Reformation, lay experience of the medieval eucharistic liturgy has been
consistently criticized as uninformed and overly materialistic. This article compares the ritual …

With decades of civil war finally behind them, many early seventeenth-century French
Catholic leaders poured their energy into promoting religious change and renewal. At the …

In January 1657, two young hollanders en route to Paris made their way to the church of
Saint-Louis des Jésuites. they were struck by the magnificence of the décor and by the …

What was Christianity like for ordinary people between the turn of the millennium and the
coming of the Black Death? What changed and what continued, in their experiences, habits …

two-thirds of the essays treat aspects of ecclesiastical practice in England, Scotland and
Wales, whilst the remainder range over myriad places and themes, from Augsburg (Philip …

In his essay The origins of the French Reformation, Lucien Febvre exposes a number of
weaknesses in common interpretations of the Reformation—that it had been brought about …

For more than thirty years, Ray Mentzer has been at the cutting edge of scholarship on the
Huguenots in sixteenth-century France. Whether studying the criminal records of the …

This article takes a further step in a line of argument I have been attempting to follow on the
development of the French language in the sixteenth century. Reduced to its simplest terms …

Deeply influenced by John Calvin's model of the Reformation and, at the same time, a prime
target of intense royal repression, the Reformed Churches of France cemented their unity in …