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Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France : The Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791 /

The imposition of a loyalty oath on French clergymen in the winter of 1790 was a turning point in the Revolutionary decade after 1789. What is more, there is a remarkable similarity between the geography of this oath--the regional percentages of those who accepted or rejected it--and the geographic...

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Autor principal: Tackett, Timothy (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2014]
Edición:Course Book
Colección:Princeton Legacy Library ; 92
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Tables
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • Part One. Introduction and Background
  • ONE. The Oath and the French Revolution
  • TWO. The Statistical Approach to the Oath: An Overview
  • Part Two. The Clergy Confronts the Oath
  • THREE. Clergymen Explain Their Oaths
  • FOUR. Collective Portraits
  • FIVE. The Ecclesiastical Milieu
  • SIX. Clerical Politics
  • Part Three. Frenchmen Confront the Oath
  • SEVEN. Clerical Leadership and the Voice from Below
  • EIGHT .The Oath as a Referendum
  • NINE. The Protestant Menace
  • TEN. Clericalism and the Oath
  • ELEVEN. The Urban Elites and the Oath
  • Part Four. Conclusions
  • TWELVE. The Meaning of the Oath
  • Appendices
  • Appendix I: Note on Method and Sources
  • Appendix II: Oath Statistics by Department and District
  • Appendix III: Oath Statistics (Summary)
  • Appendix IV: Estimated Oath-taking for Old-Regime Dioceses
  • Appendix V: Incidence of Cure Collective Action, 1730-1786
  • Sources and Bibliography
  • Index