Muston Alexis - The Israel of the Alps Volume 1

Tuesday, February 25 2014. Muston Alexis

Author : Jones William
Title : The Israel of the Alps A history of the Waldenses and their coloniesVolume 1
Year : 1875

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Author's preface. "No people of modern times," says Boyer, "exhibits so much analogy to the ancient Jewish people, as the Yaudois of the Alps of Piedmont; no history has more aboimded in marvels than theii'S, no church in martyrs." These words sufficiently explam the title of the present Work, The Israel of the Alps. Let me state its origin and its object. Por more than fifteen years, I have been occupied with assiduous researches into the history of the Yaudois. My intention was to have taken up again the volume published in 1834, and to have carried out the work on such a scale as would have made it amount to eight or ten volumes octavo. ...