This groundbreaking book explores the migration of Calvinist refugees in Europe during the Reformation, across a century of persecution, exile and minority existence. Ole Peter Grell follows the fortunes of some of the earliest Reformed merchant families, forced to flee from the Tuscan city of Lucca during the 1560s, through their journey to France during the Wars of Religion to the St Bartholomew Day Massacre and their search for refuge in Sedan. He traces the lives of these interconnected families over three generations as they settled in European cities from Geneva to London, marrying into the diaspora of Reformed merchants. Based on a potent combination of religion, commerce and family networks, these often wealthy merchants and highly skilled craftsmen were amongst the most successful of early modern capitalists. Brethren in Christ shows how this interconnected network, reinforced through marriage and enterprise, forged the backbone of international Calvinism in Reformation Europe.
Author(s): Ole Peter Grell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2011
Language: English
Pages: 339
City: Cambridge
Cover
Brethren in Christ
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Maps
Figures
Preface
Members of the Calandrini, Burlamachi and Diodati families
Introduction
1: The start of the Calvinist network: the journey from Lucca, via Lyon, to Paris
Lucca
Lyon
A new home and renewed exile: Paris, Sedan and the Wars of Religion
2: A European network takes shape: the continuation of the Calvinist diaspora in Germany, the Netherlands and England
Filippo Calandrini: exile in London and the making of a Huguenot soldier
Giovanni Calandrini: a merchant in search of a new home; from France via Germany, Antwerp, Frankfurt, Stade, Amsterdam, to London
Giovan Ludovico Calandrini: a successful merchant-banker in Geneva
Philip Calandrini: the rise and fall of a prominent Amsterdam merchant-banker
Cesar Calandrini: minister to the Italian and Dutch Reformed churches in London
Philip Burlamachi: the making of a financial tycoon in Stuart London
Cesare Calandrini: the Nuremberg merchant
The network
3: The Calvinist network and the Thirty Years War
The German Palatinate
Nuremberg: the centre of the relief operation for the Calvinist refugees from the Upper Palatinate
New-Hanau and Frankfurt: centres for the relief work for the refugees from the Lower Palatinate
4: The collections for Calvinist exiles in England, Scotland and Ireland
Unauthorised fundraising for the Reformed refugees from the Palatinate
The first royal collection in England
The second royal collection in England
The royal collections in Ireland and Scotland
Other charitable donations for the exiles from the Palatinate
The collections for the Bohemian Brethren
The third royal collection in England
5: The collections for Calvinist exiles in the Dutch Republic, Switzerland and France
The Dutch Republic
Switzerland
France
6: The benevolence of wealthy, individual ‘Brethren in Christ’
Epilogue
Index
