That men would praise the Lord: the triumph of protestantism in Nîmes, 1530-1570 by Allan A. Tulchin

Author:Allan A. Tulchin [Tulchin, Allan A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: General, Religion, Italy, History, Europe, France, Reformation, Christianity, Language Arts & Disciplines, Naimes, Linguistics, Reformation - France - Nimes, Nîmes (France), Christian Church, Nimes (France) - Church history, Christian Theology
ISBN: 9780199736522
Publisher: Oxford University Press US
Published: 2010-07-13T04:00:00+00:00

T HE C ONSOLIDATION OF THE P ROTESTANT M OVEMENT 143

Nîmes wrote urgent letters to Geneva to request an additional pastor. 64 In order to understand who was entering the Protestant community during the year

following the adoption of the cahier, I compiled a list of every person men-

tioned in the consistory records, other than the initial leadership discussed

above, from its founding on March 23, 1561, through February 28, 1562. 65 Some of these individuals fi rst appeared or spoke at a meeting in this period; others

were brought before the consistory because of some moral lapse or because

they were poor and were thought worthy of receiving charity. Many of the

references are fragmentary, and others could not be identifi ed with suffi cient

certainty in the database, but in all 113 (7 of them women) could be. The results

are given in Appendix A.

Judging from the statistics, the trends noted at the beginning of this chap-

ter only accelerated in 1561–1562, even though the group under examination

here was not composed of leaders per se. By 1562, the percentage of lawyers

among the Protestants had increased even beyond what it was in 1561, and the

percentage of high-status individuals (offi cials, seigneurs, etc.) was much

higher than ever before. The obvious explanation is that offi cials had far more

to lose than other members of the elite and therefore required strong persua-

sion. By 1562, the social pressure to convert must have been very strong. By

contrast, the percentage of agricultural workers dropped even further. The

movement had never had much success in that class, and the few farmers it

had attracted were drowned by the fl ood of new, more desirable recruits. The

30

Variable

Officials

Lawyers

25

High-Status Artisans

Agriculture

20

cent 15

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10

5

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1560 1561 1562

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