Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France Volume 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion

by McManners, John

• ISBN13: 9780198269632
• ISBN10: 0198269633
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-11-05
• Publisher: Clarendon Press

Summary

In this second volume of McManner's magnum opus, the author explores the relations of Church and State: the wealth of the clergy and their payment of taxation, and their role in the official life of the nation, in the Court at Versailles, in the army and navy, in collaboration with the police, and on the scaffold. He details throughout the tensions within the Church establishment and between clergy and laity, arriving at their denouement in the final description of the descent of the reign of Louis XVI towards the Revolution.

Table of Contents

Abbreviations	vii
III THE RELIGION OF THE PEOPLE	3	(238)
22 From Baptism to the Requiescat in pace	3	(37)
23 Liturgical Worship	40	(18)
24 Sermons	58	(20)
25 The Cure's Prone and Parish Missions	78	(16)
26 Religious Practice	94	(25)
27 On the Margins of Official Religion	119	(37)
28 Confraternities	156	(33)
29 Popular Religion and Clerical Reformers	189	(32)
30 The Dark Side of the Supernatural	221	(20)
IV THE CLERGY AND MORALS	241	(104)
31 The Confessional	241	(22)
32 Commercial Loans and Lotteries	263	(14)
33 Sexual Passion	277	(35)
34 The Theatre	312	(33)
V CROWN AND PARLEMENT: JESUITS AND JANSENISTS	345	(220)
35 The Jansenist Quarrel	345	(8)
36 Unigenitus	353	(17)
37 The Appeal to a General Council	370	(28)
38 From the Regent to Fleury	398	(25)
39 The Changing Face of Jansenism	423	(33)
40 Fleury's Repression and the Interventions of the Parlement	456	(25)
41 The Mid-Century Crisis	481	(28)
42 The Jesuits of France	509	(21)
43 The Fall of the Jesuits	530	(35)
VI THE RELIGIOUS MINORITIES AND THE ISSUE OF TOLERATION	565	(96)
44 The Huguenots: The Great Persecution	565	(24)
45 Cruelty and Compromise, 1700-1774	589	(37)
46 Lutherans and Jews: Routine Intolerance	626	(18)
47 Towards a Grudging Toleration, 1774-1789	644	(17)
VII THE CRISIS OF THE ANCIEN REGIME	661	(84)
48 The Twilight of Jansenism	661	(18)
49 The Political Role of the Bishops	679	(26)
50 The Revolt of the Cures	705	(40)
Notes	745	(85)
Index	830