Toleration and religious identity

The Edict of Nantes and its implications in France, Britain and Ireland


Ruth Whelan & Carol Baxter, editors

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ISBN: 1-85182-481-2
October 2003. 304pp.

I: Commemoration and Identity

From the Edict of Nantes to ecumenism
Jean Delumeau

Identity and commemoration: French Protestants and the quartercenturary of Edict of Nantes
Yves Bizeul

II: War and Peace

Identity and violence: French Protestants and the Wars of Religion
Denis Crouzet

'Peace must come from us': between the confessions friendship pacts during the Wars of Religion
Olivier Christin

III: Edicts of Pacification

Religious or secular? The Edict of Nantes, reformation and state formation in late sixteenth-century France
Bernard Cottret

An Edict and its antecedents: the pacification of Nantes political culture in later sixteenth-century France
Mark Greengrass

From the Edict to ecumenism and beyond
Jean Delumeau

IV: An Intolerant Toleration

Intolerance, friendship and urbanity: Balzac and his Huguenot correspondents
Olivier Millet

Pluralism, persecution and toleration in France and Britain in the seventeenth-century
John Miller

Repressive Toleration: the Huguenots in early eighteenth-century Dublin
Ruth Whelan

V: Toleration

The Enlightenment and toleration
Alan Kors

Toleration in later eighteenth-century Ireland: Voltaire and the Dublin and Hibernian magazines 1762-84
Graham Gargett

VI: Toleration and Reconciliation

Conviction and toleration: a theological and ethical appraisal
Alain Blancy

Towards a culture of tolerance
Alan D. Falconer

Moving beyond sectarianism: religion, conflict, and reconciliation in contemporary Northern Ireland
Cecelia Clegg and Joseph Liechty