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In the late eighteenth century, the French Republic evicted religious orders from their monasteries and forced them back into secular life. Regulars and the Secular Realm is a detailed account of the monks’ plight, chronicling the injustices perpetrated by government officials as well as the general antagonism towards the Catholic Church. As Mary Kathryn Robinson reveals, this fraught period of history offered a promise of “liberty for all”—except Catholics. This vivid recounting of Benedictines and the French Revolution will interest scholars and history buffs alike.    

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Robinson does a great job of showing just how unjustly officials of the French Republic treated the Maurists and enlightening us about the outrageous hypocrisy of the Revolution's high ideals.' Important history, since that was the beginning of modern liberalism's antagonism towards traditional Christianity. -Robert Shaffern, professor of history, University of Scranton, author of The Penitents' Treasury. -- Robert Shaffern

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Mary Kathryn Robinson is assistant professor of history at Lourdes College in Sylvania, Ohio.

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