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 …

In the introduction to Les deux riformes chritiennes. Propagation et diffu sion, Bernard
Roussel observes that nearly a half century has passed since the appearance of the …

This text from one of the greatest and most original of seventeenth-century thinkers reminds
us how often the ideas of the period confound our expectations. It also illustrates an attitude …

THE nature of the Catholic devotional revival of the Counter-Reformation might at first sight
seem to preclude any close parallels in the religious literature of the Calvinists. 1 The …

This article considers the attribution to Jerome Bolsec of a tract lampooning John Calvin,
and composed in verse under the pseudonym of 'Pasquin Romain.'The sole surviving copy …

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 …

Did the 16th-century Reformation influence French language and culture? This book, the
fullest available bibliography of religious printing in French during the early Reformation …

Views of Francois Rene de Chateaubriand (1768-1848) have ordinar ily been fragmentary.
All church histories refer to his first major work Le Genie du Christianisme (1802), and the …

Language is, inter alia, an instrument of political hegemony. The Will-to-Power is
inescapably the will to power over discourse, the will to control the means, occasions, and …

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