This volume offers an encompassing portrait of the Huguenots, among the best known of early modern religious minorities. It investigates the principal lines of historical development and suggests the interpretative frameworks that scholars have advanced for understanding the Huguenot experience.

Raymond A. Mentzer, Ph.D. (1973) in History, University of Wisconsin, is Professor of Religious Studies and History at the University of Iowa. His most recent book is Les registres des consistoires des Églises réformées de France, XVIe-XVIIe siècles. Un inventaire (2014).
Bertrand Van Ruymbeke, Ph.D. (1995), is Professor of American civilization at the Université de Paris 8 and member of the Institut Universitaire de France. He is the author of L'Amérique avant les Etats-Unis (2013), From New Babylon to Eden (2006), and co-editor of Naissance de l'Amérique du Nord (2008), Constructing Early Modern Empires (2007), Les Huguenots et l'Atlantique (2009-12), and Memory and Identity (2003).