Title from e-book title screen (viewed December 18, 2009).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

This wide-ranging and authoritative book fully synthesizes the French experience of religious change in the period stretching between the Reformation and the early Enlightenment.

""Contents""; ""List of Maps""; ""List of Tables""; ""Preface""; ""Prologue: the Fire and the Ashes""; ""Part 1: Foundations""; ""1 From Dioceses to Parishes: the Geography of the French Church""; ""2 Wealth into Benefices""; ""Part 2: Clerical Worlds in Context""; ""3 Clerics and Clergy: the World of the Seculars""; ""4 The Monastic Orders: Adjustment and Survival""; ""5 From Mendicants to Congregations""; ""6 A Silent Revolution: Women as Regulars""; ""Part 3: A New Clergy?""; ""7 Bishops: Adaptation and Action""; ""8 Remaking the Secular Clergy""; ""9 The Triumph of the Parish?""

""Part 4: Instruments of Religious Change""""10 Saints and Shrines""; ""11 Sacraments and Sinners""; ""12 Religion Taught and Learned""; ""13 The Forms and Uses of Spirituality""; ""Part 5: Movers and Shakers""; ""14 The Many Faces of the Confraternities""; ""15 D�A�vots: the Pious and the Militant""; ""16 Jansenists: Dissidents but also Militants""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""X""; ""Y""; ""Z""

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