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Prosperity and Plunder
European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650–1815

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Author: Derek Beales, University of Cambridge

Date Published: September 2003
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isbn: 9780521590907

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In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of monks and nuns were growing in number and wealth. They constructed vast buildings, dominated education, and played a large part in the practice and patronage of learning, music, and the arts. This lavishly-illustrated book offers a unique, comparative description of these communities--their wealth, growth, life, and importance--and then explains their catastrophic decline and fall between 1650 and 1815 by reforming rulers, the 'Enlightenment', and the French Revolution. Derek Beales, Professor Emeritus of Modern History, Cambridge, is a Fellow of both the Royal Historical Society and the British Academy. He has published numerous historical monographs including a book on musical history entitled, Mozart and the Habsburgs (Reeding, 1993) as well as articles in the New York Review of Books and the Times Literary Supplement.
- This is a pioneering study of a forgotten theme in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century European history
- Offers comparative discussion of monasteries and religious communities across Europe, from Portugal to Italy and Bohemia
- Lavish illustration in colour and black-and-white supports a stylish and highly readable text
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Awards
- Winner of the ISI Paolucci/Bagehot Book Award for 2004
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"An illuminating study of an understudied topic... Recommended." Choice
"...Beales' book provides fantastic new insights into the social and economic evolution of Catholic states in Western Europe from a monastic perspective." EH. NET, Lars M. Boerner, Institute of Economic History, School of Economics and Business, Humboldt Universtaet(Berlin)
"Beales has written a stunning book."
George Mariz, Western Washington University, Utopian Studies
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Product details
- Date Published: September 2003
- format: Hardback
- isbn: 9780521590907
- length: 414 pages
- dimensions: 254 x 198 x 36 mm
- weight: 1.389kg
- contains: 41 b/w illus. 10 colour illus. 4 maps
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part I. At the Brim of Prosperity:
1. The Counter-Reformation and the monasteries
2. The German Catholic lands
3. France
4. Spain and Portugal
5. Italy
Part II. The Time of Reform:
6. The suppression of the Jesuits
7. Patterns of reform (i): France: the commission des réguliers
8. Patterns of reform (ii): the Austrian monarchy: the Joseph(in)ist solution
Part III. The Time of Revolution:
9. The revolution in France
10. The impact of the Revolution outside France
Conclusion
Bibliographical essay
Index.
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Author
Derek Beales, University of Cambridge
Derek Beales is Professor Emeritus of Modern History, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College.
Awards
- Winner of the ISI Paolucci/Bagehot Book Award for 2004