Memory and Identity: The Huguenots in France and the Atlantic Diaspora

by Randy J. Sparks

Book Overview

A thoroughly international study of the Huguenot migration

Traditionally known as le Refuge, the Huguenot diaspora is one of the most important dispersions of a religious minority in early modern Europe. This migration led to the exodus of nearly two hundred thousand Protestants out of France in 1685 at the time of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Memory and Identity offers a comparative perspective on this event and its...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570037957
• ISBN13: 9781570037955
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"