Philip Benedict

Biographic Data

ID3676521
NAMEPhilip Benedict
GIVEN NAMESPhilip
FAMILY NAMEBenedict
SIGNATUREBENEDICT P
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Geneva
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS59
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT56
EDITOR COUNT3
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1975
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Of Handbooks, Companions, and Essay Collections: Recent Multi-Authored Volumes on Calvin and Calvinism, the Genevan Reformation, and Global Protestantism

    Open AccessPhilip BenedictARTICLEChurch History2024

    Readers of this journal will surely have noticed the remarkable proliferation in the past few decades of "handbooks" and "companions" devoted to major - and even obscure - topics, thinkers, and actors in religious history. The simultaneous appearance in 2021 of The Oxford Handbook of Calvin and Calvinism and Brill's Companion to the Reformation in Geneva provides an opportunity to reflect on the character and value of such volumes, the conditions…

  • Global Calvinism: Conversion and Commerce in the Dutch Empire, 1600–1800

    Philip BenedictARTICLESixteenth Century Journal2023

  • Of Church Orders and Postmodernism: The Convent of Wesel, the Construction of the Dutch Reformed Church Order and the History and Nature of History

    Open AccessPhilip BenedictARTICLEBMGN - Low Countries Historical…2021

    Self-avowedly influenced by the postmodernist critique of nineteenth-century ‘positivism’, Jesse Spohnholz's ambitious and multiple prize-winning 2017 The Convent of Wesel: The Event that Never was and the Invention of Tradition speaks at once to the political and institutional history of the Reformed churches of the Netherlands and northwestern Germany, to the role of archiving practices in shaping historical understanding, and to the nature of …

  • Calvin and the Early Reformation

    Open AccessPhilip BenedictARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2021

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  • Monica Martinat. 773 vies: Itinéraires de convertis au XVIIesiècle

    Open AccessPhilip BenedictARTICLEThe American Historical Review2020

    In 1986, Odile Martin published an outstanding study of the Lyon branch of the Compagnie de la Propagation de la Foi, the pious Catholic association dedicated to saving heretics from the errors of their upbringing. Her La conversion protestante à Lyon: 1659–1687 made a fundamental contribution to our understanding of conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism under the regime of the Edict of Nantes by showing that the great majority of those wh…

  • Pierre de L’Estoile and his World in the Wars of Religion, by Tom Hamilton

    Open AccessPhilip BenedictARTICLEThe English Historical Review2019

    Pierre de L’Estoile’s Mémoires-Journaux constitute the richest source for events in Paris during the reigns of Henry III and Henry IV and have been published multiple times, most recently by Geneva’s Librairie Droz in a still ongoing small format edition under the direction of Madeleine Lazard and Gilbert Schrenk. L’Estoile also maintained a family livre de raison and was a zealous collector of broadsides and prints; his celebrated album of Les B…

  • Social Relations, Politics, and Power in Early Modern France: Robert Descimon and the Historian’s Craft

    Sara Beam, Philip Benedict et al.BOOKSocial Relations, Politics, and…2016

    The study of history is a fundamentally sociable practice, with the exchange of ideas taking place in writing, over the seminar table, and often in informal discussions over food. These essays grew out of a web of sociability centered around French historian Robert Descimon, and focus on the nexus of social relations, politics, and power in France as it moved from the age of religious wars into the age of absolutism. Using a wide variety of histo…

  • David Garrioch. The Huguenots of Paris and the Coming of Religious Freedom, 1685–1789

    Philip BenedictARTICLEThe American Historical Review2014

    As the global resurgence of religious violence and the difficult adjustment to the presence of new faiths in the West have bestowed urgency on understanding confessional conflict and coexistence, Europeanists have fruitfully rethought what used to be called the “rise of toleration.” Recent work has shown that making sense of the volatile and often changing mix of tension and cooperation that marked medieval and early modern situations of religiou…

  • BRAD S. GREGORY. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society

    Philip BenedictARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Journal Article Brad S. Gregory. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society Get access Brad S. Gregory. The Unintended Reformation: How a Religious Revolution Secularized Society.Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. 2012. Pp. 574. $39.95. Philip Benedict Philip Benedict University of Geneva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Historical Review, Volume 118, Is…

  • Prophets in Arms? Ministers in War, Ministers on War: France 1562-74

    Philip BenedictARTICLEPast & Present2012Cited by: 1

    Late in France's First Civil War (1562–3), just after the duke of Guise had been struck down by a Huguenot assassin, the minister of the Reformed church of Valence, Loys Normand, sent a letter to the churches located in the vicinity of Valence and Montélimar. 1 He urged them to send troops to the Protestant military commander of the province, the count of Crussol, who was mustering forces to come to the aid of besieged Grenoble. In what is almost…

  • Calvin and His Influence, 1509–2009

    Irena Backus, Philip BenedictBOOKCalvin and his influence, 1509-20092011

    This volume collects papers initially written as the plenary addresses for the largest international scholarly conference held in connection with the 500th anniversary of Calvin's birth, organized in Geneva by the Institute of Reformation History.

  • The French Book and the European Book World

    Philip BenedictARTICLEThe English Historical Review2010

    This excellent and unusually coherent collection of essays communicates some of the discoveries made and insights gained by Andrew Pettegree as he and his team from the University of St Andrews worked on their recently published inventory of sixteenth-century books in French (French Vernacular Books: Books Published in the French Language before 1601, ed. A Pettegree, M. Walsby and A. Wilkinson, 2007). Five of the thirteen essays in this collecti…

  • Calvin

    Open AccessPhilip BenedictARTICLERenaissance Quarterly2009

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  • Divided memories? Historical calendars, commemorative processions and the recollection of the Wars of Religion during the ancien regime

    Philip BenedictARTICLEFrench History2008

    In the centuries that followed the Edict of Nantes, a number of texts and rituals preserved partisan historical recollections of episodes from the Wars of Religion. One important Huguenot ‘site of memory’ was the historical calendar. The calendars published between 1590 and 1685 displayed a particular concern with the Wars of Religion, recalling events that illustrated Protestant victimization and Catholic sedition. One important Catholic site of…

  • The Religious Culture of the Huguenots, 1660-1750

    Philip BenedictARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008Cited by: 1

    The stated goal of this collection of ten essays is to explore the contribution of Huguenot refugees to British culture and to offer a ‘fresh study of the British refuge in the context of the European [Huguenot] diaspora’ (p. 1). Several of the contributions express regret that the Huguenots in England have received less attention from historians than their counterparts in Germany or the Netherlands. By revisiting his statistical work of the late…

  • Infant Baptism in Reformation Geneva: The Shaping of a Community, 1536-1564

    Philip BenedictARTICLEThe English Historical Review2008Cited by: 3

    Journal Article Infant Baptism in Reformation Geneva: The Shaping of a Community, 1536–1564 Get access Infant Baptism in Reformation Geneva: The Shaping of a Community, 1536–1564, by Karen E. Spierling ( Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005; pp. xvii + 253. N.p.). Philip Benedict Philip Benedict Institut d'histoire de la Réformation, Geneva Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume CXXIII, …

  • The Cambridge History of Christianity

    Open AccessScott H Hendrix, Thomas W Brady et al.BOOKReform and expansion 1500-16602007

    This authoritative volume presents the history of Christianity from the eve of the Protestant Reformation to the height of Catholic Reform. In addition to in-depth coverage of the politics and theology of various reform movements in the sixteenth century, this book discusses at length the impact of the permanent schism on Latin Christendom, the Catholic responses to it, and the influence on the development of the Orthodox churches. This comprehen…

  • La Réforme en France et en Italie: Contacts, comparaisons et contrastes

    Open AccessPhilip Benedict, Silvana Seidel Menchi et al.BOOKLa Réforme en France et en Italie2007

    Le déroulement de la Réforme en France et en Italie présente en même temps des similitudes frappantes et des différences évidentes. Première rencontre consacrée aux comparaisons, aux contrastes et aux contacts entre ces deux mouvements de renouveau religieux, puissants, mais qui finalement échouent au moins partiellement, le colloque réuni à Rome les 27-20 octobre 2005 avait plusieurs objectifs : en premier lieu, étudier les rapports directs entr…

  • From Polemics to Wars: The Curious Case of the House of Guise and the Outbreak of the French Wars of Religion

    Open AccessPhilip BenedictARTICLEHISTOREIN2007References: 1

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  • Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France

    Philip BenedictBOOKCities and Social Change in Early…2005

  • Graphic History: What Readers Knew and Were Taught in the Quarante Tableaux of Perrissin and Tortorel

    Philip Benedict, Lawrence M Bryant et al.ARTICLEFrench Historical Studies2005

    Research Article| April 01 2005 Graphic History: What Readers Knew and Were Taught in the Quarante Tableaux of Perrissin and Tortorel Philip Benedict; Philip Benedict Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Lawrence M. Bryant; Lawrence M. Bryant Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Kristen B. Neuschel Kristen B. Neuschel Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google French Historical Studies (…

  • Christ's Churches Purely Reformed: A Social History of Calvinism

    Philip Benedict, Gretchen E MintonARTICLERenaissance and Reformation2003

    Konrad Eisenbichler provides an interesting and informative introduction as well as delightful woodcuts

  • Pelleteries, manchons, et chapeaux de castor: Les fourrures nord-americaines a Paris, 1500-1632 (Pelts, Muffs, and Beaver Hats: North American Furs in Paris, 1500-1632)

    Philip Benedict, Bernard AllaireARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Pelleteries, manchons, et chapeaux de castor: Les fourrures nord-américaines à Paris, 1500–1632 (Pelts, muffs, and beaver hats: North American furs in Paris, 1500–1632). By Bernard Allaire. (Sillery: Septentrion, 1999. 304 pp. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 2-89448-138-1.) In French Get access Philip Benedict Philip Benedict Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jo…

  • The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661

    Philip Benedict, Joseph BerginARTICLEThe American Historical Review1998

  • La France du XVIe siecle 1483-1598

    Philip BenedictARTICLESixteenth Century Journal1998