One of the paradoxes of my project is that, although I have been tracing a French connection within a wider millenarian world, relatively few of my primary sources are in fact located in France. This was no surprise to me, for I am after all working on a Protestant oral prophetic culture that emerged in … More Paris, France – Part I
I visited Büdingen on my way to Frankfurt a few months ago. From the early stages of my project, I had had plans to explore the Wetterau, a very beautiful region apparently unbeknownst to many Germans today. Büdingen and its surroundings became an important refuge for religious minorities in the eighteenth century, after Count Ernst Casimir of Ysenburg-Büdingen … More Büdingen, Germany
Of all the libraries and archives I have visited since I began my research on the Camisard Prophets, Geneva is without a doubt the place I consider as the starting point of my quest. I first came to Geneva in 2007 during my PhD and have returned with great pleasure several times since then. The city is … More Geneva, Switzerland
Together with the iconic orphanage, one of the most important buildings in the Francke Foundations is without a doubt the historical library. Located in Haus 22, the library was founded in 1728 and remains today an invaluable resource for Pietist studies. Figures speak for themselves: the main collection and the special collections respectively consists of 57,000 and 70,000 volumes, and the … More Halle (Saale), Germany – Part III
Lionel Laborie 