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.