Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France

by John McManners

Book Overview

Volume 2 concerns the religion of the people from religious practice and the routines of official devotion to 'popular religion' in all its aspects, from confraternities and pilgrimages to the dark margins of superstition. There is a section on morals, the confessional, commercial morality, sexual passion, and the theatre. Finally, two extended sections, one on the great Jesuit-Jansenist struggle incorporated in the feuds of Crown and Parlement, the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198270046
• ISBN13: 9780198270041
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 880 Pages
• Weight: 2.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"