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Presenting a comprehensive history of early modern La Rochelle, this volume traces the port town whose fractious residents became embroiled in the French Reformation. Opening chapters of the book place the town within the geopolitics of an ocean frontier, and the city's reformation proceeds within this context, showing how various ranks of citizenry idiosyncratically adopted the tenets of Calvinism, amalgamating these salvific doctrines with traditional civic rites and values. Through a juxtaposition of serial sources from multiple archives, Kevin Robbins seeks to show how local political and religious struggles intermeshed, setting the city and its Reformed congregations on a fatal collision with the Bourbon monarchy.

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'...this is a fine study of civic Calvinism in a major, critical town. It offers many valuable insights [...] and goes well beyond traditional political and religious considerations, emphasizing instead community and family, the processes of change, and the growing encroachment of outside influences.' Raymond A. Mentzer, Sixteenth Century Journal, 1999. In his newly published study Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe, (Routledge, 2000), p. 81, Professor Christopher Friedrichs states: The most outstanding recent treatment in English of a single French town in this era is Kevin C. Robbins, City on the Ocean Sea: La Rochelle 1530-1650. Urban Society, Religion, and Politics on the French Atlantic Frontier. '...a major work of urban historical scholarship.' Evan Jones, Urban History Newsletter, 2000. '...gripping reading.' Evan Jones, International Journal of Maritime History 'Kevin Robbins offers a major reassessment of the social taxonomy, political dynamics and religious affiliations...The result is a work that is full of impressive research matched by challenging syntheses..this groundbreaking book provides an excellent basis for future research and comparative analysis.' M. Greengrass, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2000.

'.. .this is a fine study of civic Calvinism in a major, critical town. It offers many valuable insights [...] and goes well beyond traditional political and religious considerations, emphasizing instead community and family, the processes of change, and the growing encroachment of outside influences.'<br>Raymond A. Mentzer, Sixteenth Century Journal, 1999.<br>In his newly published study Urban Politics in Early Modern Europe, (Routledge, 2000), p. 81, Professor Christopher Friedrichs states: <br> The most outstanding recent treatment in English of a single French town in this era is Kevin C. Robbins, City on the Ocean Sea: La Rochelle 1530-1650. Urban Society, Religion, and Politics on the French Atlantic Frontier. <br>'.. .a major work of urban historical scholarship.'<br>Evan Jones, Urban History Newsletter, 2000.<br>'.. .gripping reading.'<br>Evan Jones, International Journal of Maritime History<br>' Kevin Robbins offers a major reassessment of the social taxonomy, political dynamics and religious affiliationsThe result is a work that is full of impressive research matched by challenging syntheses..this groundbreaking book provides an excellent basis for future research and comparative analysis.'<br>M. Greengrass, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 2000.<br>

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Kevin C. Robbins, Ph.D. (1991) in History, Johns Hopkins University, is currently an Assistant Professor of history at Indiana University, Indianapolis. He has published widely on the sociopolitical and sociocultural histories of French west country towns.

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