HISTORY
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
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Question
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The Edict of Nantes granted Protestants freedom of worship.
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The Hapsburg family and the Holy Roman Empire supported the growth of the Roman Catholic Church.
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The authority of the Pope diminished when Northern Princes converted to Protestantism.
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Jesuits worked to prevent the spread of Catholicism.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The controversial edict was one of the first decrees of religious tolerance in Europe and granted unheard-of religious rights to the French Protestant minority. The edict upheld Protestants in freedom of conscience and permitted them to hold public worship in many parts of the kingdom, though not in Paris.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV in 1685 led to the suppression of the Reformed Church in France and forced Protestants into exile or hiding. As a result they lost all social identity.
Detailed explanation-3: -Signed on 13 April 1598, the Edict of Nantes granted rights to France’s Calvinist Protestants, known as Huguenots.
Detailed explanation-4: -Edict of Nantes Revoked Catholic conversion to Protestantism was banned, and Protestant converts to Catholicism were forbidden to return to their former religion.