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Religion and the politics of time : holidays in France from Louis XIV through Napoleon / Noah Shusterman.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shusterman, Noah.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Calendar--Political aspects--France--History.
- Calendar.
- Church calendar--France--History.
- Church calendar.
- Holidays--France--History.
- Holidays.
- Time--Political aspects--France--History.
- Time.
- Church and state--France--History.
- Church and state.
- Political culture--France--History.
- Political culture.
- France--Politics and government--1643-1715.
- France.
- France--Politics and government--1715-1774.
- France--Politics and government--1774-1793.
- France--Politics and government--1789-1815.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Religion & the politics of time
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Catholic University of America Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A study of the changes in religious holidays in Old Regime and Revolutionary France. It highlights the importance of cultural and religious history in the transformations of French society that took place from the mid-seventeenth through the early nineteenth century and tells a story of the development of a French national calendar of holidays.
- Contents:
- Religious holidays and temporal authority in old regime France
- Politics of time and the politics of the times, 1642-1695
- Centralization without the state : religious holidays in the eighteenth century
- Which time for the future? Utility, anti-clericalism, and the calendar
- Seeing like a church : religious time and Republican politics, 1789-VI
- Reluctant missionaries : enforcement of the Republican calendar, VI-VII
- Une loi de l'eglise et de l'etat : Napoleon and the central administration of religious life, 1800-1815.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8132-1813-6
- OCLC:
- 812915199
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