Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France
- Author: Henry Phillips, University of Reading
- Date Published: May 2002
- availability: Available
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521892995
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Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France brings together the social, religious and intellectual history of the Grand Siecle and focuses on the involvement of the Church in a variety of cultural domains, including literature, art, censorship and ideas. It explores the limits as well as the extent of the Church's influence, especially in its attempt to impose orthodoxy in all areas and on all sections of society. Given that orthodoxy determines the believer's inclusion or exclusion from the Church, thus implying the notion of boundaries in a context of constraint, the study is conceived according to a number of spaces. The notion of space is sometimes interpreted literally, e.g. Port-Royal, the school and the church building, and sometimes metaphorically, e.g. orthodoxy itself, science and theology. The book also deals with religious attitudes to libertinage, atheism and deism, and with aspects of French Protestantism.
Read more- The first study to examine the cultural influence of the French Church during the Counter-Reformation
- Covers a wide range of the cultural concerns (doctrine, art, ideas, literature, education, censorship)
- Provides a unique combination of social, religious and intellectual history in the context of seventeenth-century France
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'… there is much to praise in these pages, and someone new to the topic will be most grateful that so much complex material has been explained so clearly and coherently within a compact form.' Journal of Ecclesiastical History
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- Date Published: May 2002
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521892995
- length: 348 pages
- dimensions: 234 x 158 x 25 mm
- weight: 0.625kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The spaces of belief
2. The spaces of representation
3. The spaces of education
4. The spaces of dissension
5. The space of ideas
6. The spaces of discussion
7. The spaces of hostility: belief
8. The spaces of hostility: unbelief
9. The space of the word
Conclusion
Bibliography.
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