The book offers fascinating details of confessionally "mixed marriages" and their tensions. Brian Sandberg, Journal of Modern History. The book, furthermore, demonstrates the current dynamism of Early Modern gender studies, both in French and British historiography--and we can but rejoice of it. It's a humane and brilliantly told story. An exhaustive study The women of Lipscomb's narrative are less devious and more direct about their needs. They have been lucky to find such a gifted chronicler.
Kate Maltby, The Financial Times. This impressive study vividly re-animates the lived realities of ordinary women in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Languedoc This work is essential reading for specialists and students of gender, consistories, and the Protestant Reformation, while its engaging prose and opening chapters on life in Languedoc and how consistories operated make it accessible to all those interested in early modern France.
Lipscomb's painstaking study A finely wrought and colourful mosaic Professor Alexandra Walsham, Literary Review. This impressive study vividly re-animates the lived realities of ordinary women in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Languedoc essential reading for specialists and students of gender, consistories, and the Protestant Reformation, while its engaging prose and opening chapters on life in Languedoc and how consistories operated make it accessible to all those interested in early modern France.
Linda Briggs, French Studies. It takes a proficient, passionate and witty storyteller like Lipscomb to detail these stories in a way that transports and moves the reader.
Dr Joanne Paul, History Today. This is a splendid read. The author has not overplayed her stories. She has not needed to. This is scholarly writing at its readable best. Evans, Church Times.
