By W. Gregory Monahan
ISBN-10: 0199688443
ISBN-13: 9780199688449
confession within the 17th, and the shattering effect of the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes, which disadvantaged Protestants first in their pastors, after which of the itinerant preachers who tried to take their position. starting in 1701, prophetism swept the zone, and the prophets, who believed they heard and
followed the note of the Holy Spirit, quickly led their fans into violent assaults at the Catholic Church and uprising opposed to the crown. A power and sometimes winning guerrilla battle raged for over years.
Monahan argues that the ensuing warfare concerned a bunch of usually conflicting global perspectives, or discourses, within which many of the events to the clash, even if the king and his ministers at Versailles, the provincial intendant Basville and native officers, the overseas powers, the Church, the generals, or the Camisard rebels themselves, usually misunderstood or didn't speak with one another, ensuing too frequently in bad violence and bloodshed. enable God come up tells us a lot about
the nature of the reign of Louis XIV and the preferred faith of the time in exploring the final nice uprising in France ahead of the Revolution of 1789.
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