The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of
Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe …

The long eighteenth century is generally associated with the Enlightenment, an intellectual
golden age that established rationalism as the basis of modern thinking. Proponents of this …

France and England are often seen as monarchies standing at opposite ends of the
spectrum of seventeenth-century European political culture. On the one hand the Bourbon …

Seventeenth-century wars were usually determined by sieges and myriad minor operations-
reconnaissances, attacks on supply lines, patrols, raids and occupation of captured regions …

Hans Willem Bentinck, 1st Earl of Portland (1649-1709) was the closest confidant of William
III and arguably the most important politician in Williamite Britain. Beginning his career in …

Winner-Best Scholarly Work, National Huguenot Society, 2018 The Edict of Nantes ended
the civil wars of the Reformation in 1598 by making France a kingdom with two religions …

The book addresses the role of the Huguenots as an international force both before and
after the infamous Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685-an overlooked aspect of Early …

Whilst much has been written about the Huguenots during the sixteenth-century wars of
religion, much less is known about their history in the following centuries. The ten essays in …

'By God, there's no bearing this from such a Parcel of Scrubs,'declared the old veteran John
Smith to his associate Thomas Jones, as the two aired their complaints about the behaviour …

This dissertation examines the brief flowering of French opera on stages outside of France
around the turn of the eighteenth century. I attribute the sudden rise and fall of interest in the …