Planting the Cross
Catholic Reform and Renewal in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 11 April 2019
- ISBN 9780190887025
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages232 pages
- Size 160x246x20 mm
- Weight 476 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 5 hts 0
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Short description:
Planting the Cross exposes the challenges that French convents and monasteries faced as they struggled to survive the civil wars that reduced the country to near anarchy in the sixteenth century and then to raise standards and instill a new piety in their members in the wake of the wars.
MoreLong description:
The first thing that Catholic religious orders did when they arrived in a town to establish a new community was to plant the cross--to erect a large wooden cross where the church was to stand. The cross was a contested symbol in the civil wars that reduced France to near anarchy in the sixteenth century. Protestants tore down crosses to mark their disdain for "popish" superstition; Catholics swore to erect a thousand new crosses for every one destroyed. Fighting words at the time, the vow to erect a thousand new crosses was expressed in the rapid multiplication of reformed religious congregations once peace arrived.
In this book, Barbara B. Diefendorf examines the beginnings of the Catholic Reformation in France and shows how profoundly the movement was shaped by the experience of religious war. She analyzes convents and monasteries in three regions--Paris, Provence, and Languedoc--as they struggled to survive the wars and then to raise standards and instill a new piety in their members in their aftermath. What emerges are stories of nuns left homeless by the wars, of monks rebelling against both abbot and king, of ascetic friars reviving Catholic devotion in a Protestant-dominated South, and of a Dominican order battling demonic possession.
Illuminating persistent debates about the purpose of monastic life, Planting the Cross underscores the diverse paths religious reform took within different local settings and offers new perspectives on the evolution of early modern French Catholicism.
Deifendorf's stunning ability to reconstruct the lives and events of her subjects within the meticulous religious, political, and social history of early modern France sparkles through each chapter.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Ch. 1. Old Orders in New Times: The Convents of Montpellier
Ch. 2. A Monastery in Revolt: Paris's Feuillants in the Holy League
Ch. 3. Catholic Militants in France's Protestant Heartland: The Capuchins of Languedoc
Ch. 4. Battling Demons to Propagate Reform: Sébastien Michaëlis and the Dominicans of Languedoc
Ch. 5. Catholic Reform from the Bottom Up: The Trinitarians of Provence
Ch. 6. Alternative Visions of the Teresian Heritage: How the Spanish Carmelites Became French
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
