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Cummunities of Belief: Cultural and Social Tension in Early Modern France

Cummunities of Belief: Cultural and Social Tension in Early Modern France

Paperback

French History

ISBN10: 0198206038
ISBN13: 9780198206033
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Aug 31 1995
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.27
Height: 1.13 Width: 5.62 Depth: 8.56
Language: English
This book is about attitudes and behavior in early modern France, dealing particularly with the conflicts related to social and intellectual changes, and with the tensions between the elite and the common people. Topics discussed include witchcraft, popular belief and superstition, confession, the family, Church and State, and popular revolt. Briggs combines the methods of social history and of histoire de mentalités to produce an in-depth analysis of the changes and tensions which mark this period as one of vital development in all these areas. The book offers a lively critique of some current interpretations of seventeenth-century France, which have been the subject of much recent controversy.

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