Author: Henry M. BairdPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752376929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: History of the Rise of the Huguenots by Henry M. Baird
History of the Rise of the Huguenots
Author: Henry M. BairdPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752376929
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: History of the Rise of the Huguenots by Henry M. Baird
History of the Rise of the Huguenots
Author: Henry M. BairdPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752322586
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: History of the Rise of the Huguenots by Henry M. Baird
The Huguenots
Author: Geoffrey TreasurePublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300196199
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
From the author of Louis XIV, an unprecedented history of the entire Huguenot experience in France, from hopeful beginnings to tragic diaspora. Following the Reformation, a growing number of radical Protestants came together to live and worship in Catholic France. These Huguenots survived persecution and armed conflict to win—however briefly—freedom of worship, civil rights, and unique status as a protected minority. But in 1685, the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes abolished all Huguenot rights, and more than 200,000 of the radical Calvinists were forced to flee across Europe, some even farther. In this capstone work, Geoffrey Treasure tells the full story of the Huguenots’ rise, survival, and fall in France over the course of a century and a half. He explores what it was like to be a Huguenot living in a “state within a state,” weaving stories of ordinary citizens together with those of statesmen, feudal magnates, leaders of the Catholic revival, Henry of Navarre, Catherine de’ Medici, Louis XIV, and many others. Treasure describes the Huguenots’ disciplined community, their faith and courage, their rich achievements, and their unique place within Protestantism and European history. The Huguenot exodus represented a crucial turning point in European history, Treasure contends, and he addresses the significance of the Huguenot story—the story of a minority group with the power to resist and endure in one of early modern Europe’s strongest nations. “A formidable work, covering complex, fascinating, horrifying and often paradoxical events over a period of more than 200 years…Treasure’s work is a monument to the courage and heroism of the Huguenots.”—Piers Paul Read, The Tablet
History of the Rise of the Huguenots
Author: Henry Martyn BairdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 730
Book Description
History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France
Author: Henry Martyn BairdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 712
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Meyerbeer’s Les Huguenots
Author: Robert Ignatius LetellierPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1443860840
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
On 29 February 1836, Les Huguenots, a grand opera by Giacomo Meyerbeer (1791–1864), with words by Eugène Scribe (1791–1861) and Émile Deschamps (1791–1871), was performed for the first time, at the Paris Opéra. It was to be one of the most successful productions ever staged at the Opéra, with 1,126 performances in Paris over the next hundred years, and, in the process, breaking all box office records. It became Meyerbeer’s most popular work, with thousands of stagings throughout the world. Les Huguenots is a huge exploration of faith, tolerance, hatred, extermination, love, loyalty, self-sacrifice and hope in despair. It is the first panel in a central diptych on the Reformation, at the heart of the wider tetralogy of Meyerbeer’s grand operas, where issues of power, religion and love are examined in a variety of modes. For five years after the sensational premiere of Robert le Diable, Meyerbeer worked on this gigantic drama, partly adapted by Scribe from Prosper Mérimée’s Chronique de Charles IX. Meyerbeer matches the text in drama, splendour and ceremony: it combines theatricalism with profound depths of feeling. Its gorgeous colouring, intense passion, consistency of dramatic treatment, and careful delineation of character secured for this work vast fame and influence. It was an epoch-making opera, an enduring monument to Meyerbeer’s fame. The music for this sombre tapestry of the Saint Bartholomew Massacre springs from the core of the vivid action, and creates a panoramic alternation of moods, that capture the tragedy of religious intolerance and personal anguish in one of the most fraught events in history, when some 30,000 French Protestants were murdered during 24 August 1574. Meyerbeer’s music rises to the occasion, and reaches sublime heights of music drama, especially in the fourth and fifth acts, with the Blessing of the Daggers (one of the most electric scenes in all opera), the more powerful Love Duet, and the Trio of Martyrdom in the last moments of the opera. Spectacle was incorporated in the plot, in Meyerbeer’s concern to conjure up the couleur locale of those heroic times. In spite of the overwhelming dramatic power and the instrumental riches of the score, the most significant aspect of the work came to be regarded as the supremacy of the seven principal vocal parts. Performances of Les Huguenots at the Metropolitan Opera in New York during the 1890s were among the most famous in operatic history.
History of the Rise of the Huguenots of France
Author: Henry Martyn BairdPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Church and state
Languages : en
Pages : 618
Book Description
The Christian Union
Author: The Presbyterian and Reformed Review
Author: Benjamin Breckinridge WarfieldPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 792
Book Description
Includes section "Reviews of recent theological literature".
Author: