What was Christianity like for ordinary people between the turn of the millennium and the
coming of the Black Death? What changed and what continued, in their experiences, habits …

By the middle of the seventeenth century there existed three versions of religious culture in
New France: those of the learned clergy, the ordinary settlers, and the Amerindians. The first …

For much of the sixteenth-century, France was wracked with religious strife, as the Wars of
Religion pitted Catholic against Protestant. Whilst the conversion of Henri IV to Catholicism …

With decades of civil war finally behind them, many early seventeenth-century French
Catholic leaders poured their energy into promoting religious change and renewal. At the …

When one evokes the 20th century's view of its predecessor, one may think that the 19th
century was unlucky. Under the Third Republic, which lasted until 1940, and then under the …

The Catholicisms of Coutances is a richly detailed account of France from the Hundred
Years' War to the French revolution. Coining the word" catholicisms" to denote the complex …

This readable and engaging book by an acclaimed historian is the only wide-ranging
synthesis devoted to the French experience of religious change during the period after the …

At the vanguard of efforts to revitalize early modern Catholicism, Jes uit missionaries arrived
in New France with the ambitious aim of con verting the scattered peoples of the northern …

IN presenting this treatise to the public I am very conscious of its limitations, but trust that it
may prove to be a contribution to the knowledge of one of the most obscure periods of …

British and American historians of France have largely ignored the role of religion in
explaining French society in the ancien régime and the revolutionary period. The views of …