This edited collection of essays is dedicated to the memory of Walter C. Utt, French historian and author of a recent and much needed biography of Claude Brousson. Its eleven chapters examine, in chronological order, the Huguenots' history and memory from a transnational perspective. Although some look at the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, and America, the book's geographical focus is on England. Contrary to the general consensus and despite coming second behind the Dutch Republic in numerical terms, these essays suggest that England became perceived as the greatest Huguenot refuge by 1700 and that she always played a pivotal role in the relationship between France and other Protestant countries.

The volume nicely synthesizes most of the recent historiography of the Huguenot diaspora, its transnational impact and the emergence of a collective memory in an exiled community. Of particular interest are chapter 6, for the breadth of D. J. B. Trim's survey of Huguenot soldiers in foreign services, and chapter 9, where Vivienne Larminie studies the integration of Huguenots refugees in the Pays de Vaud and their foreign relations through wills. A recurring, underlying dimension in most contributions is the millenarian interpretation of the persecution and exodus of French Protestants, both by themselves and their foreign coreligionists. Paul McGraw's concluding chapter shows how this tragic episode was understood as a divine trial and warning, from seventeenth-century Puritan ministers in New England to late nineteenth-century Seventh-Day Adventists, and how it gradually became a part of the American Protestant memory.