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Record Nr.

UNINA9910785748203321

Autore

Shusterman Noah

Titolo

Religion and the politics of time : holidays in France from Louis XIV through Napoleon / / Noah Shusterman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : Catholic University of America Press, , 2010

©2010

ISBN

0-8132-1813-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xv, 299 pages) : illustrations, maps

Disciplina

944.033

Soggetti

Calendar - Political aspects - France - History

Church calendar - France - History

Holidays - France - History

Time - Political aspects - France - History

Church and state - France - History

Political culture - France - History

France Politics and government 1643-1715

France Politics and government 1715-1774

France Politics and government 1774-1793

France Politics and government 1789-1815

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.