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Author:   Ann W. Ramsey (Royalty Account)
Publisher:   Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Imprint:   University of Rochester Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.666kg
ISBN:  

9781580460316

ISBN 10:   1580460313
Pages:   254
Publication Date:   31 December 1999
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

"Part 1 Introduction - League piety - definitions and concepts: the historical context - politics, religion and the emergence of the Catholic League in Paris. Part 2 Calvin, the Council of Trent, and zealous Catholicism: Calvin and the critique of performativity; sacred performance and the tasks of Tridentine reform; Leaguer zeal and Politique rationality - gesture and competing visions of authority. Part 3 Immanence and sacred performance in League piety: the quantitative analysis of symbolic behaviour; ""Paris Ligeuer"", 1590 - the fusion of the civic and the sacred; the League and the definition of Catholic reform - an experiential approach; the boundaries of community and the body of Christ; cultural meaning in the ascendancy of five over 13. Conclusion: economics of salvation c1540-c1630 - the nature of the sacred and the power to make meaning. Epilogue: the triumph of transcendence - science and ""homo religiosus"" on the eve of the Enlightenment. Appendices: genealogical table of the houses of Valois and Bourbon; genealogical table for the chief Catholic princely houses of Guise and Lorraine; eight variables to analyze performativity; Leaguers - criteria for identification and basic testator data, 1590; master notary chart, 1590; overall performativity ranking for notaries, 1590; the world of Leaguer preachers and clerics; testator members of the university milieu; 21 testators using service-related number symbolism, 1590; 14 testators using symbolic numbers in bequests to the poor, 1590; the coding of a will; comparison of Leaguers with a reference population of non-Leaguers, 1590 - comparison with testator populations of 1543-44 and 1630."

Reviews

An important book, highly innovative in its methodology and research...It reaches important conclusions in its own right as well as pointing the way to further research on the Catholic League and Catholic reform. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW(This book's) conclusions and sophisticated methodology make it important for all those interested in the religious changes of early modern France. AHRRamsey offers a wealth of information. Her mircoportraits of testators are fascinating. She hopes that her investigation will foster further research into the field that she has mined, and it surely will. 16C. JNLRamsey has opened a window on a fascinating world...which has hitherto been inaccessible to us. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

An important book, highly innovative in its methodology and research...It reaches important conclusions in its own right as well as pointing the way to further research on the Catholic League and Catholic reform. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW[This book's] conclusions and sophisticated methodology make it important for all those interested in the religious changes of early modern France. AHRRamsey offers a wealth of information. Her mircoportraits of testators are fascinating. She hopes that her investigation will foster further research into the field that she has mined, and it surely will. 16C. JNLRamsey has opened a window on a fascinating world...which has hitherto been inaccessible to us. ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY

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