Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540-1630

by Ramsey, Ann W.

• ISBN13: 9781580460316
• ISBN10: 1580460313
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-01
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc

Summary

Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation analyzes the contest between the Catholic League and the sovereign authority of the French crown in the middle to late sixteenth century, as a clash between three very different existential positions on the proper relations between the sacred and the profane. This was a debate between Huguenots, Politiques, and the zealous Catholic Leaguers, which frequently led to open conflict, violence, and an undermining of the supremacy of the French state. This book provides a much-needed examination of the role of the Catholic League in the Counter-Reformation of France and how this influence can still be felt today in French politics.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	vii
List of Tables	vii
Acknowledgments	ix
A Note on Manuscript Sources and Abbreviations	x
Preface	xi
Introduction: League Piety: Definitions and Concepts	1	(6)
Part One: Catholic Militancy and Religious Reform: Tensions between Tradition and Innovation
The Historical Context: Politics, Religion, and the Emergence of the Catholic League in Paris	7	(28)
Part Two: Calvin, the Council of Trent, and Zealous Catholicism
Calvin and the Critique of Performativity	35	(9)
Sacred Performance and the Tasks of Tridentine Reform	44	(13)
Leaguer Zeal and Politique Rationality: Gesture and Competing Visions of Authority	57	(28)
Part Three: Immanence and Sacred Performance in League Piety
The Quantitative Analysis of Symbolic Behavior	85	(31)
Paris Ligueur, 1590: The Fusion of the Civic and the Sacred	116	(31)
The League and the Definition of Catholic Reform: An Experiential Approach	147	(50)
The Boundaries of Community and the Body of Christ: Cultural Meaning in the Ascendancy of Five over Thirteen	197	(17)
Conclusion: Economies of Salvation ca. 1540--ca. 1630: The Nature of the Sacred and the Power to Make Meaning	214	(6)
Epilogue: The Triumph of Transcendence: Science and Homo Religiosus on the Eve of the Enlightenment	220	(13)
Appendix A: Genealogical Table of the Houses of Valois and Bourbon	233	(2)
Appendix B: Genealogical Table for the Chief Catholic Princely Houses of Guise and Lorraine	235	(1)
Appendix C: Eight Variables to Analyze Performativity	236	(11)
Appendix D: Leaguers: Criteria for Identification and Basic Testator Data, 1590	247	(19)
Appendix E: Master Notary Chart, 1590	266	(8)
Appendix F: Overall Performativity Ranking for Notaries, 1590	274	(2)
Appendix G: The World of Leaguer Preachers and Clerics	276	(4)
Appendix H: Testator Members of the University Milieu	280	(8)
Appendix I: Twenty-One Testators Using Service-Related Number Symbolism, 1590	288	(6)
Appendix J: Fourteen Testators Using Symbolic Numbers in Bequests to the Poor, 1590	294	(5)
Appendix K: The Coding of a Will	299	(12)
Appendix L: Comparison of Leaguers with a Reference Population of Non-Leaguers, 1590; Comparison with Testator Populations of 1543--44 and 1630	311	(23)
Notes	334	(67)
Bibliography	401	(34)
Index	435