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St. Andrews University in Scotland is sponsoring a one-day conference on November 18, 2006 regarding:
Robert Kingdon's Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion: A retrospective after 50 years
School of History, University of St Andrews
in association with the Centre for French History and Culture
Very few books continue to set the intellectual agenda after fifty years, but Robert Kingdon's Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France is one such work. Published at the height of the Cold War in 1956, Kingdon's work shaped for two generations our understanding of how Calvin, from Geneva, revived and redirected a flagging French evangelism. Kingdon's presentation of the Genevan mission has proved remarkably enduring, not least because it provides a plausible explanation of the explosive impact of Calvinism in France and its remarkable success in the first years of the French Wars of Religion. But was French Protestantism so coherent; and was Calvinism so dominant a force? At this one-day conference, a group of scholars, all of them specialists on one aspect of Kingdon's thesis, will present a retrospective assessment of Kingdon's first and most influential work. Further details will be announced shortly.
Robert Kingdon's Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion: A retrospective after 50 years
School of History, University of St Andrews
in association with the Centre for French History and Culture
Very few books continue to set the intellectual agenda after fifty years, but Robert Kingdon's Geneva and the Coming of the Wars of Religion in France is one such work. Published at the height of the Cold War in 1956, Kingdon's work shaped for two generations our understanding of how Calvin, from Geneva, revived and redirected a flagging French evangelism. Kingdon's presentation of the Genevan mission has proved remarkably enduring, not least because it provides a plausible explanation of the explosive impact of Calvinism in France and its remarkable success in the first years of the French Wars of Religion. But was French Protestantism so coherent; and was Calvinism so dominant a force? At this one-day conference, a group of scholars, all of them specialists on one aspect of Kingdon's thesis, will present a retrospective assessment of Kingdon's first and most influential work. Further details will be announced shortly.
