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3484zg66s0q	Adam Asher Duker	Providence under Pressure: Israelite Identity and Religious War in Early Modern France, 1550–1575	1904		.txt	text/plain	465	13	33	It is a cross confessional and comparative study that examines dozens of eyewitness siege accounts and other sources born of the awful crucible of siege warfare, exploring how contemporary Christians understood their relationship to God, to each other, and to the distant past in the midst of chaos and trauma. This dissertation is composed of three large and moving blocks of material: a narrative of key siege campaigns in the French religious wars; a treatment of the written narratives which came out of those campaigns, and a thematic exploration and analysis of the place of ancient texts—particularly the Hebrew Bible—in informing and structuring the combatants' sense of themselves and their enemies.	cache/3484zg66s0q.txt	txt/3484zg66s0q.txt