Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- PART ONE -- The Native Land -- Renaissance Kingship and Noble Subjects -- The Special Relationship -- The Power of the Word -- Every Man His Own Priest -- The French Church, Humanism and the Pre-­Reform1 -- 'God Will Change the World' -- Calvin -- Geneva -- PART TWO -- Persecution and Growth -- Why Be a Huguenot? -- A Party Forms -- Towards War -- A Kingdom Divided -- Battle, Murder and Deadly Consequences -- The Massacre of St Bartholomew's Day -- PART THREE -- A Failing State -- The Struggle Intensifies -- Henry IV, King of France -- The Edict of Nantes1 -- The Regime of the Edict -- Catholic Reformation -- Ventures Too Far -- The Great Siege -- PART FOUR -- 'The Little Flock' -- The Eye of the Storm -- A Pastoral and Spiritual Crisis -- Revision or Reunion? -- PART FIVE -- Uncertain Times -- Mars Ascendant -- Temptations and Trials -- Towards Resolution -- Force Majeure -- Aftermath -- Diaspora -- Huguenotism Recovers its Soul -- Sous La Croix -- Afterword: Strangers and Citizens -- Glossary -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Index.