ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the historical reconstruction of Calvinist networks. There was plenty of rhetoric in the works of Hugh Trevor-Roper, the historian principally responsible for the currency of Herbert Luthy's notion in the Anglo-Saxon world. In the keynote chapter titled "Religion, the Reformation and Social Change" to the book of that title which he published in 1967, it became a component in a wider argument, one to which he would return regularly thereafter in his writings. The "Huguenot International" became the "Calvinist International", European in scope, entrepreneurial in engagement and ideological in quality. In the process chronological focus shifted from the post-Revocation to the post-Reformation. The heartland of "Calvinist International" was the cities of the Swiss cantons and Rhineland, the location for the refugee Reformation of the sixteenth century. Simonetta Adorni-Braccesi, "Religious Refugees from Lucca in the Sixteenth Century: Political Strategies and Religious Prosyletism", Archiv fur Reformationsgeschichte, provides a background analysis of the refugee strategies of the Luccan exiles.
