Experiencing Exile : Huguenot Refugees in the Dutch Republic, 1680-1700

This dissertation overturns longstanding assumptions about the experience of exile in early modern Europe. Historians usually consider religious refugees as hardliners, because they refused to conform to another faith and went into exile. Scholars have also emphasised the religious transformation of exiles, arguing that their stay abroad turned them into devout and radical people who infused their home society with a militant sense of piety. This dissertation, however, argues that the experience of exile had little to do with religious heroism. Focussing on Huguenot refugees in the Dutch Repub... Mehr ...