TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bergin,Joseph
TI  - Church, society and religious change in France, 1580-1730
SN  - 9780300150988 (hbk.)
AV  - BX1529 .B47 2009
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New Haven [Conn.], London
PB  - Yale University Press
KW  - Catholic Church
KW  - France
KW  - History
KW  - Modern period, 1500-
KW  - Church history
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. [433]-484) and index; From dioceses to parishes: the geography of the French church -- Wealth into benefices -- Clerics and clergy: the world of the seculars -- The monastic orders: adjustment and survival -- From mendicants to congregations -- A silent revolution: Women as regulars -- Bishops: adaptation and action -- Remaking the secular clergy -- The triumph of the parish? -- Saints and shrines -- Sacraments and sinners -- Religion taught and learned -- The forms and uses of spirituality -- The many faces of the confraternities -- Devots: the pious and the militant -- Jansenists: dissidents but also militants
ER  -