The definitive account of the nature of French religious life across the 'long seventeenth century'
This readable and engaging book by an acclaimed historian is the only wide-ranging synthesis devoted to the French experience of religious change during the period after the wars of religion up to the early Enlightenment. Joseph Bergin provides a clear, up-to-date, and thorough account of the religious history of France in the context of social, institutional, and cultural developments during the so-called long seventeenth century.Bergin argues that the French version of the Catholic Reformation showed a dynamism unrivaled elsewhere in Europe. The traumatic experiences of the wars of religion, the continuing search within France for heresy, and the challenge of Augustinian thought successively energized its attempts at religious change. Bergin highlights the continuing interaction of church and society and shows that while the French experience was clearly allied to its European context, its path was a distinctive one.
- ISBN10 0300150989
- ISBN13 9780300150988
- Publish Date 15 June 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 19 May 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 506
- Language English