\ kil^ TX JiK in. N Digitized by the Internet Archive fn 2007 with funding from IVIicrosoft Corporation http://www.archive.org/details/frenchprotestantOOkellrich FRENCH PROTESTANTISM, i??9-i?62 Series xxxvi No. 4 JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY STUDIES IN Historical and Political Science ofUnder the Direction the Departments of History, Political Economy, and Political Science FRENCH PROTESTANTISM 1^^9-1^62 BY CALEB GUYER KELLY BALTIMORE THE JOHNS HOPKINS PRESS Z918 byCopyright 1918 HOPKINS PRESSTHE JOHNS OFPRESS NEW ERA PRINTING COMPANYTHE PA.LANCASTER, CONTENTS Pagh viiPreface Chapter I. Social and Economic Forces 9 Chapter IL The Resources of the Huguenots ... 38 III. The Organization of the Calvinists.. 69 Chapter IV. The Reform at Its Height 88 V. Friends and Foes atHomeandAbroad 118 Chapter VI. Guise or Valois ? 137 VII. The Arsenal of Protestantism 163 Bibliographical References 179 Index 183 PREFACE The brief period between and 1562, interlacing the1559 reigns of Henry II and of two of his sons, Francis II and Charles IX, was momentous in the history of French "Protestantism. Consequently studies in diplomacy and la haute politique of that epoch of four years" have been thevigorously pursued, but social and economic questions Indeed,have been inadequately treated. much of the real nature of the reign of Henry II and of the growth of the Reform during his incumbency is obscure.
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