Part one: Europe falls apart. The native land: people and institutions
Renaissance kingship and noble subjects
The French church, humanism and the pre-reform
'God will change the world'
Calvin: the way, the truth and the life
Geneva: the experiment and the experience
Part two: A church forms. Persecution and growth
Battle, murder and deadly consequences
The massacre of St Bartholomew's Day
Part three: Religious wars. A failing state
Part four: 1629-1661: a golden age. 'The little flock'
The eye of the storm: Huguenot lives and conditions
A pastoral and spiritual crisis
Part five: Revocation. Uncertain times
Huguenotism recovers its soul: war in the Cévennes