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This volume focuses on the experiences and representations of Protestants, mainly French, from the 16th to the 18th century. The main thread is a questioning of what a Protestant is, how he or she differs from Catholics - apart, of course, from participation in worship - in his or her beliefs as well as in his or her vision of the world or appearance, and whether there is an evolution between the beginnings of the Reformation and the Enlightenment. For this reason, a history is privileged that does not limit itself to institutions, practices and ideas; a cultural history that is attentive not to the explicit but to the unimagined, to what texts, words and gestures express about the way people live at a given time; a non-denominational history, which makes Protestantism both the name of a religious heritage to which one can relate and an intellectual construction; a history that draws on extremely varied sources. Thus, in addition to the classic themes (Calvin, the Reformed institutions, religious coexistence, persecutions), themes often neglected in the history of Protestantism, such as missions, attitudes towards death, time, the perception of night, heterodox thoughts and attitudes, etc., are also addressed. The last chapters deal with the historiography of Protestantism, since the 16th century, and to see how this religion is perceived both by Protestants themselves and by contemporary literature for young people. These contributions include articles published between 1995 and 2020, most of which have been revised and updated. They thus reveal the evolution of a research carried out over a whole career.

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