Greg Miller is Professor Emeritus of English at Millsaps College in Jackson, Mississippi
Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise is Professor of English Literature and Cultural Studies at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris and a member of the Institut Universitaire de France

Introduction: contentious communion-Greg Miller and Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
Part I Thinking beyond borders: War and peace
1 The Saint Bartholomew's Day Massacre: Experiences of the tragic and historiographic genres in Edward Herbert and George Herbert-Anne-Marie Miller-Blaise
2 The Thirty Years' War and George Herbert's communion, an answer to violence-Greg Miller
3 "Being" James I: Herbert of Cherbury's vexed diplomacy-Nancy Zaice
4 Ceremony and self: Belligerent civility in Edward Herbert's Autobiography-Michael Schoenfeldt
Part II Reconsidering conformity, community and universality
5 "Gerson, a Spirituall Man": Herbert and the University of Paris's reformist chancellor- Christopher Hodgkins
6 Conformity and consent in Herbert of Cherbury-Anita Sherman
7 "Devout Humanism" and its problems: George Herbert and François de Sales-Richard Strier
8 George Herbert's The Country Parson and John Calvin's pastoral advice-Kristine A. Wolberg and Lynnette St. George
9 Edward Herbert's The Amazon and De Veritate-Cristina Malcolmson
Part III Voices of transnational communities: From conversation to song
10 Edward Herbert within the fellowship of gentlemen plain speakers-Sean H. McDowell
11 "The little World the Great shall blaze": Edward Herbert, Thomas Carew, Giambattista Marino, and the poetics of embassy-Eleanor Hardy
12 George Herbert and three French Protestant poets (Chandieu, Grévin, Sponde)-Guillaume Coatalen
13 Becoming "a Citizen of the world": Edward Herbert and continental music-making- Simon Jackson
14 "Sweet Singers of our Israel": French psalmody, the Sidneys and George Herbert-Helen Wilcox
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