Church, society and religious change in France, 1580-1730

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This wide-ranging and authoritative book fully synthesizes the French experience of religious change in the period stretching between the Reformation and the early Enlightenment.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bergin, Joseph, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, ©2009.
Subjects:
Catholic Church > France > History > Modern period, 1500-
Catholic Church > History > Modern period, 1500-
Église catholique > Histoire > 1500-
Catholic Church
Since 1500
HISTORY > Europe > France.
Religion
Katholische Kirche.
Religion.
France > Church history.
France > Histoire religieuse.
France
Frankreich
Church history
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • From dioceses to parishes : the geography of the French church
  • Wealth into benefices
  • Clerics and clergy : the world of the seculars
  • The monastic orders : adjustment and survival
  • From mendicants to congregations
  • A silent revolution : women as regulars
  • Bishops : adaptation and action
  • Remaking the secular clergy
  • The triumph of the parish?
  • Saints and shrines
  • Sacraments and sinners
  • Religion taught and learned
  • The forms and uses of spirituality
  • The many faces of the confraternities
  • Dévots : the pious and the militant
  • Jansenists : dissidents but also militants.

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