At the time of the Ancien Régime, provincial synods were intermediate institutions between consistories and national synods of the Protestant Churches of France. These institutions, although not totally ignored by historians of Protestantism,...

At the time of the Ancien Régime, provincial synods were intermediate institutions between consistories and national synods of the Protestant Churches of France. These institutions, although not totally left apart by the historians of Protestantism...

In recent years, discussion of first-person writing in the humanities and social sciences has been largely taken up with questions concerning the status of the 'self'. The objective of the analyses offered here—of sixteenth-century texts from France...

Though Marc Antoine Muret (1526-1585) adopted Italy as his home and published in Latin before becoming known as an orator, he never ceased to maintain close ties with the world of French letters, as shown by his relations with Ronsard and Montaigne...

The Calvinist Reformation is characterized above all by a focus on church discipline enforced by church courts known as consistories. The Geneva consistory served as the model and mother institution throughout the Calvinist world...

This edited volume brings together a diversity of viewpoints on human-animal relationships grounded in social science and the humanities. One question underpins all the contributions: how is the boundary between humans and animals made, maintained,...

Reading, writing and book production marked the life of Pierre de Ronsard (1524-1585) almost in its entirety. The present study retraces the biographical, social ...