Protecting Refugees in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World?

This article looks into practices of refugee protection in the context of the heavy persecutions and mass exodus of Huguenots in the 1680s. In revisiting Huguenot petitions addressed to Protestant princes in Europe and princely edicts offering protection to newly arriving migrants, we will try to di...

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Main Author: Susanne Lachenicht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2023-07-01
Series:Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/12301
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spellingShingle Susanne Lachenicht
Protecting Refugees in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World?
Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
Refugee
Huguenot
Protection
Persecution
Accommodation
title Protecting Refugees in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World?
title_full Protecting Refugees in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World?
title_fullStr Protecting Refugees in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World?
title_full_unstemmed Protecting Refugees in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World?
title_short Protecting Refugees in Early Modern Europe and the Atlantic World?
title_sort protecting refugees in early modern europe and the atlantic world
topic Refugee
Huguenot
Protection
Persecution
Accommodation
url https://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/12301
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