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The Waldensians : the first 800 years (1174-1974)

Title: The Waldensians : the first 800 years (1174-1974) / Giorgio Tourn ; translated from the Italian by Camillo P. Merlino ; Charles W. Arbuthnot, editor.
Author: Tourn, Giorgio.
Publication: Torino : Claudiana ; New York : Distributed in North America by the American Waldensian Aid Society, ©1980.

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Description

xvii, 244 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations; 21 cm

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Note

Translation of: I valdesi, la singolare vicenda di un popolo chiesa.
Includes index

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 237-238.

Contents

Part one: a Diaspora of Dissidents (1170-1530) -- Waldo and "the poor" -- The years of crisis -- In the Italy of the communes -- Toward the Baltic -- The Bastion of the Alps -- The Waldensian-Hussite International -- The reformation -- Part two: the Protestant outpost (1530-1700) -- Revolution's hour -- Scorched earth and massacre -- The first war of religion -- Reformation versus Counter-Reformation -- A time of visitations -- A springtime of blood -- Exile -- Repatriation -- Part three: the Alpine ghetto (1700-1848) -- The ghetto is born -- The revolution -- Restoration -- Part four: toward a new diaspora (1848-1976) -- Italy, my country -- The Protestant fact -- The new Italy -- The year of Reconstruction.

OCLC

ocm06694261
6694261
SCSB-54057

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Princeton University Library