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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Huguenots"”.
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The Evolution Of French Identity: A Study Of The Huguenots In Colonial South Carolina, 1680-1740
… of prosperity and religious toleration, the Huguenots' identity evolved from one of French religious refugees to that of white South Carolinians. How and why this evolution occurred is the focus of this study. Upon arriving in the colony in the 1680s and 1690s, the Huguenots' identity was …
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So Many Thieves and Lutherans at Sea: Spain's Reaction to the Emergence of French Huguenots in the New World
This thesis argues that religion is essential when studying the reaction of the Spanish to the influx of foreign trespassers in the New World. Previous scholarship pertaining to the French in the Americas focuses on the motivations of pirates and neglects to consider the Spanish reaction to the …
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An Irish Missionary in France, Thomas Gould (1657-1734), Irish Migrant, Catholic priest and Missionnaire du Roi
… upon its religious dissenting community, the Huguenots. The hermeneutical merit in focusing on Gould in this period is evident in the dynamism of his life, the study of which allows one to weave together the many differing contextual fabrics of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth …
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Poësie en die politiek van die postmodernisme : 'n ondersoek na die postmodernistiese poësie van Wilma Stockenström
… that being the arrival at the Cape of the Huguenots in 1688-89. Finally it is argued that this postmodernist text, by way of intertextual references, not only implies a rewriting of colonial perspectives on history, but also a rewriting of a literary history, thereby contributing to the …
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Francois Hotman and Jean Bodin. Political Activity in Sixteenth Century France
… John Ponet called for resistance. In France, the Huguenots produced an abundant literature in support of rebellion.</p>
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The religion of the people in Winchester and Southampton, c.1558-c.1603
… about Protestantism. Perhaps encouraged by the Huguenots and Channel Islanders, the townsfolk became Protestant quickly and happily. The town government went further, becoming quite Puritanical and Sabbatarian in its approach to godly discipline in Southampton.<br/><br/>In Winchester, by …
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The Mazarin Salon: French Exiles in Seventeenth-Century London
… of the salon as a space occupied by Catholics, Huguenots, Anglicans, and Dutch and Italian Protestants to consider the negotiation of religious difference. Chapter Four focuses on the salon’s operas, written and performed by its members to an intimate audience, to think about how they constitute …
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The Architectural Patronage of John, 2nd Duke of Montagu (1690-1749)
… was an important patron of learned societies, Huguenots, the arts and Freemasonry. This thesis examines Montagu’s newly-accessible private archives, institutional records and papers found in local record societies, as well as studying all surviving building fabric. The thesis establishes the …
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English privateering during the Spanish and French wars, 1625-1630
… was another major naval expedition to aid the Huguenots in the port of La Rochelle. The expedition was under the supreme command of the King's favourite, the Duke of Buckingham. The failure of this expedition goaded Charles into another effort to relieve the Protestant city in 1628. Buckingham …