
By Jonathan A. Reid
ISBN-10: 9004174974
ISBN-13: 9789004174979
This research reconstructs for the 1st time Marguerite of Navarre's management of a wide circle of nobles, prelates, humanist authors, and commoners, who sought to increase the reform of the French church alongside evangelical (Protestant) traces. Hitherto misunderstood in scholarship, they're published to have pursued, regardless of persecution, a constant reform software from the Meaux test to the tip of Francis I's reign via various ability: fostering neighborhood church reform, publishing a wide corpus of spiritual literature, high-profile public preaching, and trying to form the path of royal coverage. Their special doctrines, kin with significant reformers - together with their erstwhile colleague Calvin - involvement in significant Reformation occasions, and the impression in their unsuccessful try are all explored.