Church, society, and religious change in France, 1580-1730 [[electronic resource] /] / Joseph Bergin

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910780642003321
• Autore: Bergin Joseph <1948->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New Haven, : Yale University Press, c2009
• ISBN: 1-282-35276-8; 9786612352768; 0-300-16106-9
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (1 online resource (xvii, 506 p.) ) : ill., maps
• Disciplina: 282/.4409031
• Soggetti: HISTORY / Europe / France; France History Modern period, 1500-; France Church history
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.