Nicolas Gueudeville and His Work (1652-172?)It is generally agreed that great men transcend their time while ordinary men remain rooted in it. This is why, if we want to know what life was like in days gone by, we must study those who were most representative of their age, those individuals who, though they may have achieved a modicum of fame or notoriety, are now, because of their limited abilities and outlook, largely forgotten. The great figures involved in the political and religious controversies that took of the seventeenth century and the beginning place in Holland! towards the end of the eighteenth, men such as Bayle, Jurieu, Le Clerc and others who were in the forefront of what has been aptly termed as the "crise de la conscience europeenne," these figures have been the object of extensive investigation. The minor personages of this period, on the other hand, have received little attention. For this reason, in a previous study,2 I examined the life and work of one of these minor figures, and tried to show how he was representative of those French Huguenots who came to Holland in the latter half of the seventeenth century, who settled in relatively remote places, and who made an effort to integrate themselves and gain acceptance in Dutch provincial society. |
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... religious controversies that took place in Holland1 towards the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth , men such as Bayle , Jurieu , Le Clerc and others who were in the forefront of what has been aptly ...
... religious controversies that took place in Holland1 towards the end of the seventeenth century and the beginning of the eighteenth , men such as Bayle , Jurieu , Le Clerc and others who were in the forefront of what has been aptly ...
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... religious conventions of their time . To represent these unsung warriors I have chosen , for this present study , Nicolas Gueudeville , a Benedictine monk who renounced his religion and settled in Holland towards the end of the century ...
... religious conventions of their time . To represent these unsung warriors I have chosen , for this present study , Nicolas Gueudeville , a Benedictine monk who renounced his religion and settled in Holland towards the end of the century ...
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... religion , and he could no longer tolerate his situation . As a result , he lost his faith , and was quite prepared to lapse into a life of godlessness and libertinage when , by an act of divine providence , he met a Protestant and was ...
... religion , and he could no longer tolerate his situation . As a result , he lost his faith , and was quite prepared to lapse into a life of godlessness and libertinage when , by an act of divine providence , he met a Protestant and was ...
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... religion not based on reason alone , this latter account has the ring of authenticity , and the probability is that he left France more to save his skin than his soul . What we do know for certain is that , in 1689 , he made his way to ...
... religion not based on reason alone , this latter account has the ring of authenticity , and the probability is that he left France more to save his skin than his soul . What we do know for certain is that , in 1689 , he made his way to ...
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... religion through his anonymous editing of the works of the baron de Lahontan , and , in the same year , he began his collaboration in a massive publishing project entitled the Atlas historique ( 1705–1720 ) .1 15 Through his authorship ...
... religion through his anonymous editing of the works of the baron de Lahontan , and , in the same year , he began his collaboration in a massive publishing project entitled the Atlas historique ( 1705–1720 ) .1 15 Through his authorship ...
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