French Bishops: The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661

Author:   Joseph Bergin
Publisher:   Yale University Press
ISBN:  

9780300067514


Pages:   768
Publication Date:   27 November 1996
Format:   Hardback
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French Bishops: The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661


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"This work, written by one of the leading historians of France's ""ancien regime"", is an in-depth study of the French upper clergy during the key period of the Catholic Reformation following the Council of Trent. In describing the creation, character and role of these early French bishops, it also sheds light on social mobility, education, the career patterns and prospects of particular groups, the workings of patronage and clientage networks, and the wider dimensions of royal policy and patronage at this time. Joseph Bergin begins by analysing the structures of the French church and the process by which individuals were nominated and confirmed as bishops. He then presents a collective profile of these bishops in terms of their social and geographical origins, educational attainments and pre-episcopal careers. Bergin examines royal patronage in relation to episcopal office, tracing the successive pressures with which the crown had to deal in the wider social and political world. In particualr he shows how the crown gradually recovered control of church patronage after the low point of the religious wars, reducing the grip of the nobility on large numbers of dioceses. He also examines how reforming pressures were brought to bear on the crown to appoint bishops who met the standards of the counter-reformation church and how the crown became increasingly in tune with these reformist pressures. He concludes by explaining particular features of the French episcopate within a wider European context. The book includes an extensive biographical dictionary."

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Author:   Joseph Bergin
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.00cm , Height: 6.30cm , Length: 27.80cm
Weight:   1.610kg
ISBN:  

9780300067514


ISBN 10:   0300067518
Pages:   768
Publication Date:   27 November 1996
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock   Availability explained

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