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Unnatural Frenchmen : The Politics of Priestly Celibacy and Marriage, 1720-1815 /

This book examines the divisive issue of clerical celibacy in Enlightenment and revolutionary France, looking at how it shaped religious politics, the lived experience of French clerics, and gendered citizenship. Drawing on a wide base of printed and archival material, including thousands of letters...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Cage, E. Claire, 1982- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Clerical celibacy from early Christianity to the Ancien Regime
  • An unnatural state: the clerical celibacy controversy in Enlightenment France
  • Priests into citizens: clerical marriage during the early Revolution, 1789-1793
  • A social crime: clerical celibacy from the Terror to Napoleon
  • Married priests in the Napoleonic era.