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Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion

Book information

Year
1998
ISBN
9780198269632, 0198269633, 9780191520631
LCC
BX1529 .M38 1998
Open Library ID
OL22295308M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4864510 bytes)
Pages
880\881
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this second volume of McManner's magnum opus, the author explores the relations of Church and State: the wealth of the clergy and their payment of taxation, and their role in the official life of the nation, in the Court at Versailles, in the army and navy, in collaboration with the police, and on the scaffold. He details throughout the tensions within the Church establishment and between clergy and laity, arriving at their denouement in the final description of the descent of the reign of Louis XVI towards the Revolution.

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