Territories of Grace: Cultural Change in the Seventeenth-Century Diocese of Grenoble Volume 11

by Keith P. Luria

Territories of Grace offers a sophisticated model of cultural change in early modern rural society, by examining the religion of villagers in the French diocese of Grenoble during the Counter-Reformation. Keith P. Luria describes the encounter of village and official forms of piety, arguing that historians have oversimplified the struggle between high and low culture in early modern Europe. He shows how religion was constructed in a complex relationship...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520415353
• ISBN13: 9780520415355
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"