The War of the Camisards (1702-1704)

The War of the Camisards (1702-1704)

Author: Stephen M. Davis

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2024-10-31

Total Pages: 125

ISBN-13:

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The War of the Camisards was the last of France’s wars of religion and pales in comparison with the Wars of Religion of the 1500s. There were no nobles to lead the peasant armies, its active phase hardly lasted two years, and the war was limited to the Cévennes region in Southern France. For two years, the royal troops of Louis XIV battled outnumbered, ill-equipped peasants led by wool combers, shepherds, and farmers. The war mobilized several great marshals of France and ended with negotiations between a decorated marshal of France and a modest baker, Jean Cavalier. The War of the Camisards has been both embraced and rejected by French Protestants. The primary causes for rejection are prophetism, nourished by Old Testament prophecies that God would pour out his Spirit in a time of trouble, and the prophetic call to violent resistance. The War of the Camisards, the devastation of the Cévennes, the atrocities committed in the name of religion, and the damage to the image of France serve as warnings for governments to tread lightly in religious matters and for Christians to weigh carefully how to respond to government repression.


Oracles of Nostradamus

Oracles of Nostradamus

Author: Charles A. Ward

Publisher: Health Research Books

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 416

ISBN-13: 9780787309336

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Nostradamus and other prophets do not prophecy beyond the year 2000. Nostradamus is the most popular and probably the most accurate.


Modern France

Modern France

Author: Michael F. Leruth

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2022-10-18

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 1440855498

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This volume offers perspective on modern French society and culture through thematic chapters on topics ranging from geography to popular culture. Ideal for students and general readers, this book includes insightful, current information about France's past, present, and future. France is the country most visited by international tourists. Aside from clichéd images of baguettes and the Eiffel Tower, however, what is French society and culture really like? Modern France is organized into thematic chapters covering the full range of French history and contemporary daily life. Chapter topics include: geography; history; government and politics; economy; religion and thought; social classes and ethnicity; gender, marriage, and sexuality; education; language; etiquette; literature and drama; art and architecture; music and dance; food; leisure and sports; and media and popular culture. Each chapter contains an overview of the topic and alphabetized entries on examples of each theme. A detailed historical timeline covers prehistoric times to the presidency of Emmanuel Macron. Special appendices offer profiles of a typical day in the life of representative members of French society, a glossary, key facts and figures about France, and a holiday chart. The volume will be useful for readers looking for specific topical information and for those who want to develop an informed perspective on aspects of modern France.


Canadian Baptist Women

Canadian Baptist Women

Author: Sharon M. Bowler

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2016-09-14

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1498237169

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The stories of the women have often stayed in the shadows of Canadian Baptist history. The writers of this book have sought out neglected primary source materials to reveal the lives and work of an array of Baptist women in Canada's history. Read here about the Acadian Mary Lore hungrily reading her French Bible and welcoming the message of Baptist missionaries in Lower Canada, Jane Gilmour leaving her home in Britain to minister with her husband in Montreal and the wilds of Upper Canada, a group of remarkable black Baptist women in southern Ontario in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Isabel Crawford from Niagara becoming an advocate for the Kiowa people of Oklahoma, Miriam Ross from Nova Scotia ministering in the Congo, Lois Tupper, pioneer female Baptist theological educator, and, more generally, the work of Baptist women in the Maritimes in the nineteenth century and western Canada in the first half of the twentieth century. Empowered by their Baptist faith, these Canadian women did remarkable things, and their stories deserve to be told and read.


Economic Development in Early Modern France

Economic Development in Early Modern France

Author: Jeff Horn

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2015-02-26

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1107046289

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This book explores how the institution of privilege and liberty shaped early modern economic development in France between 1650 and 1820.