Flare Resistances or the Bipolarity of Counter-Reformation Politics in 18th Century, Seugniory of Jilemnice and Villages of Monts Lacaune
2007
Abstract
The paper compares the different forms of resistance of Protestant minorities against the Counter-Reformation process and its church and state pressure in the 18th century on the example of the hugenot population of the mountainious villages of Monts Lacuna and of non Catholics villagers of Jilemnice estate. The relative proximity of the state frontier and inhospitality of the mountainious areas favored in both cases an enhanced form of resistance.
The self-identification of believers with the specific highland millieu intensified by the Bible's interpretations initiated a specific spiritual tie of inhabitants to local landscape.