Historiographical Asessment Of "Huguenot Heartland: Montauban And Southern French Calvinism During The Wars Of Religion" By Philip Conner

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The real focus is on the Midi-Region, and particularly the importance of the city of Montauban. The motivation of the author to talk about this specific subject is explained on page 4, I quote: “It seems somewhat perverse that most studies of French Calvinism have focused on Northern France where Calvinism ultimately failed, whereas in the South, the Huguenot movement achieved a position of dominance that was not so easily relinquished...
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He also thinks this omission is all the more striking because of the Calvinist longevity in the South, which far surpassed that of the North. Also, in his eyes the apparent negligence in historiography for the importance of the city of Montauban itself is unjust, I quote: “Nevertheless it seems preposterous that these Southern Huguenot strongholds continue to go unnoticed in the literature, particularly in Montauban's case which boasted, as we have already seen, one of the largest concentrations of Protestant strength in the whole of France” The author also suggests three possible explanations for this apparent discrepancy: I The City of Montauban today is relatively unimportant...
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