Church, society, and religious change in France, 1580-1730 / Joseph Bergin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bergin, Joseph, 1948-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--France--History--Modern period, 1500-.

Catholic Church.

France--History--Modern period, 1500-.

France.

France--Church history.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 online resource (xvii, 506 p.) ) ill., maps.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New Haven : Yale University Press, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This readable and engaging book by an acclaimed historian is the only wide-ranging synthesis devoted to the French experience of religious change during the period after the wars of religion up to the early Enlightenment. Joseph Bergin provides a clear, up-to-date, and thorough account of the religious history of France in the context of social, institutional, and cultural developments during the so-called long seventeenth century. Bergin argues that the French version of the Catholic Reformation showed a dynamism unrivaled elsewhere in Europe. The traumatic experiences of the wars of religion, the continuing search within France for heresy, and the challenge of Augustinian thought successively energized its attempts at religious change. Bergin highlights the continuing interaction of church and society and shows that while the French experience was clearly allied to its European context, its path was a distinctive one.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Maps

List of Tables

Preface

Prologue: The Fire and the Ashes

Part 1: Foundations

1. From Dioceses to Parishes: The Geography of the French Church

2. Wealth Into Benefices

3. Clerics And Clergy: The World of the Seculars

4. The Monastic Orders: Adjustment and Survival

5. From Mendicants to Congregations

6. A Silent Revolution:Women as Regulars

7. Bishops: Adaptation and Action

8. Remaking the Secular Clergy

9. The Triumph of the Parish?

10. Saints and Shrines

11. Sacraments and Sinners

12. Religion Taught and Learned

13. The Forms and Uses of Spirituality

14. The Many Faces of the Confraternities

15. Dévots: The Pious and the Militant

16. Jansenists: Dissidents But Also Militants

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-35276-8

9786612352768

0-300-16106-9

OCLC:

496961332