Theology, Politics and Letters at the Crossroads of European Civilization: Jacques Basnage and the Baylean Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic

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I. From the City of Joan of Arc to the United Provinces of William III and the grand pensionary Heinsius.- 1. The Basnages of Rouen: Huguenot avocats in the Parlement of Normandy and pastors of the French Reformed Church.- 2. The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in Rouen.- 3. Refuge in Holland: Ministry in the Walloon Church of Rotterdam and the Republic of Letters in the time of Pierre Bayle, 1685-1709.- 3.1. Introduction: The two French-speaking Protestant waves to enter the United Provinces.- 3.2. Vocation in the Rotterdam Walloon Church.- 3.3. Early writings on French Protestantism after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.- 3.4. Early literary friendships and quarrels.- 3.5. Advancement of the Walloon Church in the United Provinces.- 4. Refuge in Holland: Ministry in the Walloon Church of The Hague and Protestant diplomacy, 1710-23.- 4.1. Calling in The Hague Walloon Church.- 4.2. Diplomatic agent of the grand pensionary Heinsius.- 4.3. A last treatise on French Protestantism after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes.- 4.4. Later acquaintances in the Respublica litteraria et Christiana.- 4.5. Activity in the Synods of the Walloon Church.- II. Dimensions of the Huguenot intellectual of the 'Diaspora'.- 5. First modern historian of the Jews: Rational criticism versus Xenophobia and the Wall of Silence.- 6. Critic of Bossuet and historian of the Protestant churches: The position of dissenters in an absolute monarchy.- 7. Religious controversialist and the issues of Unigenitus, Jansenism, and Gallicanism.- 8. Contributor to the Histoire des Ouvrages des Savans: Journalism in the service of the Republic of Letters.- 9. States' historian of the Dutch first Stadholderless period and the Republic under William III.- 10. The progress of history from barbarism to civilization: Social change in duelling and chivalric orders.- 11. Toward a redefinition of Calvinist theology and Society? The problem of religious toleration and freedom of conscience.- Conclusion: The role of the Baylean moderate party in the Second Huguenot Refuge.- Select bibliography:.- 1. Bibliographies and guides to materials.- 2. Original manuscripts: Unprinted.- 3. Original manuscripts: Printed.- 4. Contempory works of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.- 5. Later works.

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