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.
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.
Barbara B. Diefendorf is Professor Emerita of History at Boston University. She is the author of From Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris (OUP, 2004), winner of the J. Russell Major Prize of the American Historical Association, and Beneath the Cross: Catholics and Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris (OUP, 1991), winner of book awards from the New England Historical Association and National Huguenot Society, among other titles.
Inhaltsangabe
* 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
* 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
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