Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Preface
- Members of the Calandrini, Burlamachi and Diodati families
- Introduction
- 1 The start of the Calvinist network
- 2 A European network takes shape
- 3 The Calvinist network and the Thirty Years War
- 4 The collections for Calvinist exiles in England, Scotland and Ireland
- 5 The collections for Calvinist exiles in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland and France
- 6 The benevolence of wealthy, individual ‘Brethren in Christ’
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
2 - A European network takes shape
the continuation of the Calvinist diaspora in Germany, the Netherlands and England
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Maps
- Figures
- Preface
- Members of the Calandrini, Burlamachi and Diodati families
- Introduction
- 1 The start of the Calvinist network
- 2 A European network takes shape
- 3 The Calvinist network and the Thirty Years War
- 4 The collections for Calvinist exiles in England, Scotland and Ireland
- 5 The collections for Calvinist exiles in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland and France
- 6 The benevolence of wealthy, individual ‘Brethren in Christ’
- Epilogue
- Index
- References
Summary
After less than a decade in France, and following the Wars of Religion and in particular the St Bartholomew Day Massacre, it finally became clear to the Reformed exiles from Lucca that France was never going to provide them with the safe haven they had hoped for. Consequently, many of them decided to settle in Geneva where some, of course, had intended to go all along, while others sought renewed refuge in some of the major trading centres of Germany and the Netherlands which offered a measure of toleration. Their exodus from France initiated a series of migrations between some of the leading north-western European cities involving a number of family members. Combined with their intermarriage into other refugee Reformed merchant families, primarily from Antwerp, this served to grow and expand a Reformed network built around wealthy merchant families who all shared the experience of persecution and exile. Giuliano Calandrini’s children offer particularly pertinent examples of how this Reformed network grew and consolidated itself.
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- Brethren in ChristA Calvinist Network in Reformation Europe, pp. 65 - 126Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2011