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Experiencing Exile

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Experiencing Exile book

Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680–1700

Experiencing Exile

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Experiencing Exile book

Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680–1700
ByDavid van der Linden
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2015
eBook Published 22 April 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315581514
Pages 310 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315581514
SubjectsHumanities
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Linden, D. (2015). Experiencing Exile. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315581514

The persecution of the Huguenots in France, followed by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685, unleashed one of the largest migration waves of early modern Europe. Focusing on the fate of French Protestants who fled to the Dutch Republic, Experiencing Exile examines how Huguenot refugees dealt with the complex realities of living as strangers abroad, and how they seized upon religion and stories of their own past to comfort them in exile. The book widens the scope of scholarship on the Huguenot Refuge, by looking beyond the beliefs and fortunes of high-profile refugees, to explore the lives of ’ordinary’ exiles. Studies on Huguenots in the Dutch Republic in particular focus almost exclusively on the intellectual achievements of a small group of figures, including Pierre Bayle and the Basnage brothers, whereas the fate of the many refugees who joined them in exile remains unknown. This book puts the masses of Huguenot refugees back into the history of the Refuge, examining how they experienced leaving France and building a new life in the Dutch Republic. Divided into three sections - ’The Economy of Exile’, ’Faith in Exile’ and ’Memories in Exile’ - the book argues that the Huguenot exile experience was far more complicated than has often been assumed. Scholars have treated Huguenot refugees either as religious heroes, as successful migrants, or as modern philosophers, while ignoring the many challenges that exile presented. As this book demonstrates, Huguenots in the Dutch Republic discovered that being a religious refugee in early modern Europe was above all a complex and profoundly unsettling experience, fraught with socio-economic, religious and political challenges, rather than a clear-cut quest for religious freedom.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

chapter |12 pages

Introduction

part |2 pages

Part I: The Economy of Exile

chapter 1|24 pages

Leaving France

chapter 2|39 pages

Making Ends Meet

part |3 pages

Part II: Faith in Exile

chapter 3|26 pages

The Comforts of Preaching

chapter 4|24 pages

Hearing the Message

chapter 5|30 pages

The End of Exile

part |2 pages

Part III: Memories in Exile

chapter 6|14 pages

Refugee Memoirs

chapter 7|48 pages

Writing the Huguenot Past

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