Calliope articles from March 2003

Calliope archives from March 2003

One catches more files with a spoonful of honey than with twenty casks of vinegar. (Musings).
March 1, 2003... --King Henry IV of France DISAGREEMENTS COME IN ALL SIZES. SOME ARE RESOLVED IN MINUTES; OTHERS TAKE YEARS, EVEN DECADES. MOST START AS RELATIVELY SMALL differences of opinion--each with the potential to mushroom into an explosive...

Time line.
March 1, 2003... Time Line (All dates are A.D.) 1517 The Reformation begins in Germany. 1562 The French Wars of Religion begin and continue intermittently until 1629. 1572 August 24: The St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre begins. ...

Changing course.
March 1, 2003... From earliest times, religious reformers who wished to change the Christian Church were blocked, frustrated, or crushed by church authorities. Yet these reformers rarely sought to break away from the church. The movement for change (the...

Who were the Huguenots?
March 1, 2003... The Huguenots were French Protestants. Their beliefs and church organization followed the model established in Geneva, Switzerland, by John Calvin. Calvin was a Frenchman who had studied ancient Greek and Roman texts and applied to the Bible...

Words of reformation. (Activity).
March 1, 2003... Across 2. One who wishes to bring about a change. 4. Any Christian belonging to a sect which has separated from the Church of Rome. 6. Religious beliefs that are opposed to accepted or official beliefs. 7. One who is part of...

The beginnings of reform.
March 1, 2003... The Church of Rome survived many crises and successfully resisted many heresies in medieval times. Widespread corruption and a concern with nonreligious matters had not only hidden the church's spiritual message but also weakened its ability to...

The outbreak of religious warfare.
March 1, 2003... Several factors contributed to the outbreak of the French Wars of Religion in 1562. Passions were intensified by Protestant demonstrations and the breaking of Catholic religious images on the one hand, and by Catholic persecution and massacre...

St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre.
March 1, 2003... After almost 10 years of religious warfare, a compromise allowed a hesitant peace to settle over most of France in the early 1570s. In Paris, however, tensions were still running high. The city was a center of French Catholicism, and Catholic...

The War of the Three Henrys.
March 1, 2003... THE HUGUENOTS FACED MANY DIFFICULTIES AFTER THE ST. BARTHOLOMEW'S DAY Massacre. An entire generation of Huguenot leaders had been killed, and young Henry of Navarre remained as yet untested. Following the massacres, Henry was kept under house...

Who's who in Huguenot history?
March 1, 2003... With all those Henrys, the story of the Huguenots can be challenging! Here's a game you can play to help you sort out the Henrys and others in Huguenot history. Read each description and name the historical figure. The answers can be found on...

Word origins. (Fun With Words).
March 1, 2003... Persecute French is one of the Romance languages (along with Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, and Spanish) that are derived from Latin. Thus, it is only natural that the bulk of its vocabulary can easily be traced to Latin root words....

Word stories. (Fun With Words).
March 1, 2003... Ampere By definition, ampere is an electrical term and represents the standard unit for measuring the strength of an electric current. Participants in the 1881 Paris Electrical Congress first established the definition. They thought it...

Expressions. (Fun With Words).
March 1, 2003... There are more than 100 expressions in English that include the word "French." Below are a few. We have provided a definition for some, and left the rest for you to research! Try using them in your conversation and school essays. ...

The Edict of Nantes.
March 1, 2003... HUGUENOT LEADER HENRY IV GAINED THE UPPER HAND AGAINST THE CATHOLIC HOLY League with stunning military victories in 1589 and 1590. His hope to take Paris in the summer of 1590 was dashed, however, because of Spanish intervention on behalf of...

Collapse of the Huguenot cause.
March 1, 2003... On the afternoon of May 14, 1610, King Henry IV left the Louvre palace to oversee war preparations. When his carriage stopped because of a traffic jam, a man jumped from the crowd and fatally stabbed him. The assassination threw into doubt the...

Persecution of a minority.
March 1, 2003... Louis XIV's revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 was an expression of the wishes of an entire society. By the late 1600s, the Huguenots were a small minority, but to the Catholic majority they seemed to present a real threat. Their style...

Le refuge.
March 1, 2003... In 1684, Judith Giton, a Huguenot from southern France, after having "suffered through eight months of exactions [excessive demands] and quartering [housing] by the soldiery, for the religion with much evil," decided to escape at night, leaving...

Faux Faberge.
March 1, 2003... Russian-born Peter Carl Faberge (1846-1920) was one of world's greatest goldsmiths and jewelers. The grandson of a Huguenot refugee, Faberge won world renown for his imperial Easter eggs. Wouldn't one of his golden eggs, encrusted with...

Freedom for the Huguenots.
March 1, 2003... The idea of "freedom" in the above title is synonymous with equal treatment before the law and in society. For Huguenots in 18th-century France, however, the path to freedom proved a long and winding road. Louis XIV died in 1715, but...

What's the importance of studying ancient world history? (Ask Calliope).
March 1, 2003... --Rock, Web post [!] The renowned Roman statesman and orator Marcus Tullius Cicero once wrote, "To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to always remain a child." Studying history--ancient and not-so-ancient--helps us gain...

Why did civilizations settle near rivers? (Ask Calliope).
March 1, 2003... --Katie, Web post [!] For thousands of years, people have considered rivers--actually any type of waterway--an ideal place for a settlement. They offer many obvious benefits--water to drink and to irrigate crops. In ancient times,...

What was the Trojan horse? (Ask Calliope).
March 1, 2003... --Maureen, Web post [!] The Trojan horse is thought to refer to a battering ram encased in a wooden superstructure. The ancient Greeks may actually have used such a tactic in battle, but the Trojan one is legendary. Legend says that Paris,...

Books. (Off the Shelf).
March 1, 2003... Believers: Spiritual Leaders of the World by Elizabeth Goldman (Oxford University Press, 1995) profiles 43 religious and spiritual leaders, including John Calvin and Martin Luther, who have influenced the course of history. The two- to...

Cobblestone resources. (Off the Shelf).
March 1, 2003... Materials that complement this theme's topic, "The Huguenots," and are available from Cobblestone Publishing include: CALLIOPE "Martin Luther" (May 1999) CALLIOPE "Louis XIV" (March 2002)

On the net. (Off the Shelf).
March 1, 2003... For a fact-filled site on the Huguenots, go to: www.giocities.com/hugenoteblad/histhug.htm For more information about New Paltz, New York, its Huguenot settlers, and its museum, try: www.hhs.newpaltz.org ...

On the Huguenot trail. (From Past to Present).
March 1, 2003... Exploring the Huguenot world today is not always easy. However, French Protestants still identify with the image of the "desert." In the Christian tradition, the desert is usually associated with religious hermits. For French Protestants, the...