Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespin's Livre des Martyrs

Jameson Tucker is Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Plymouth. His previous publications include 'From Fire to Iron: Martyrs and Massacre victims in Genevan martyrology' in Dying, Death, Burial and Commemoration in Early Modern Europe, edited by Liz Tingle and Jonathan Willis (2015).

• Table of ContentsIntroductionChapter 1: The Hussites and Protestant HistoryChapter 2: 'What little true light they had’: The Vaudois in history and martyrologyChapter 3: The Alpine Vaudois in the 1550s and 1560sChapter 4: ‘Luther n’est point mort pour moy’: Crespin and Lutheran MartyrsChapter 5: The German Peasants' WarConclusionBibliographyIndex

'Tucker provides us with important insights into the composition and purpose of Crespin's martyrology. Analyzing a range of editions, he shows how the sufferings of past heretics were re-crafted to bolster the Reformed cause as well as to indicate its antecedents. It provides a valuable contribution towards understanding how faiths responded to persecution in the early modern period.'Andrew Spicer, Oxford Brookes University, UK