Unity in Multiformity: The Minutes of the Coetus of London, 1575, and the Consistory Minutes of the Italian Church of London, 1570-91

Unity in Multiformity: The Minutes of the Coetus of London, 1575, and the Consistory Minutes of the Italian Church of London, 1570-91. Edited by Owe Boersma and Auke J. Jelsma. London: Publications of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland, 1997. x + 278 pp. 12 paper.

Historians ought to be fascinated by refugees, if not by the precariousness of their pilgrim status then by the accommodations and sometimes striking innovations that displacements prompt. The editors and patrons of the Huguenot Society fed that fascination for generations. This fifty-ninth volume of the Society's Quarto Series, copublished with the Commission de l'Histoire et de la Bibliotheques des Eglises Wallonnes, sets several related documents in a sturdy, handsome miscellany: the consistory minutes...