Between 1554 and 1570, the Genevan printer Jean Crespin compiled seven French-language editions of his martyrology. In The Construction of Reformed Identity in Jean Crespin s Livre des Martyrs, Jameson Tucker explores how this martyrology helped to shape a distinct Reformed identity for its protestant readership, with a particular interest in the stranger groups that Crespin included within his Livre des Martyrs.

By comparing each edition of the Livre des Martyrs, this book examines Crespin s editorial processes and considers the impact that he intended...