Religious Change in Europe, 1650-1914

The focus of this collection is the nature of religious change over more than two centuries, here examined by some of the leading scholars in the field, in tribute to John McManners on his eightieth birthday. Ranging across Europe (with a particular emphasis on France and Britain), readers will find essays which survey individual responses to crises in the religious life of the state, discuss contacts between communions, note changing patterns of worship and devotions, and explore the ways in which religion (and the lessons of the past) can offer help or consolation in the conduct of life. Some contributors deal with the close, often tense, links between religion, churchmen, and the formation and evolving character of the state; others consider the survival and adaptability of minority groups such as eighteenth-century monks, or British Jews, in response to external considerations. In all the contributions, the interaction of private and public life is a strong feature, a reflection of its own importance in Professor McManners' own writings.

ISBN 0198205961   Pages 460 ISBN13 9780198205968 (What's this?)   Volumes 000 Publisher Oxford University Press   Weight (grammes) 859 Imprint Clarendon Press   Published in Oxford Format Hardback   Height (mm) 234 Publication date 06 Feb 1997   Width (mm) 156 Library of Congress BR735.R453   Spine width (mm) 31 DEWEY 274.07   Academic level Professional / Scholarly DEWEY edition DC21

		Notes on Contributors
		Introduction: John McManners, Man and Historian by Nigel Aston		1
1		The Science of Sin: Jacques de Sainte-Beuve and his Cas de conscience by Robin Briggs		23
2		John Dury and the Practice of Irenicism by Scott Mandelbrote		41
3		An Irish Opportunist in Paris: Dr Piers de Girardin by Jacques M. Gres-Gayer		59
4		'Il Fallut meme reveiller les Suisses': Aspects of Private Religious Practice in a Public Setting in Eighteenth-Century Versailles by Giles Barber		75
5		A Quest for Peace in the Church: The Abbe A. J. C. Clement's Journey to Rome of 1758 by John Rogister		103
6		Secular Simony: The Clergy and the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France by William Doyle		135
7		'Superstitious enemies of the flesh'? The Variety of Benedictine Responses to the Enlightenment by Dom Aidan Bellenger		149
8		Joseph II and the Monasteries of Austria and Hungary by Derek Beales		161
9		A 'lay divine': Burke, Christianity, and the Preservation of the British State, 1790-1797 by Nigel Aston		185
10		The Kirk, the French Revolution, and the Burden of Scottish Whiggery by Colin Kidd		213
11		Religion according to Napoleon: The Limitations of Pragmatism by Geoffrey Ellis		235
12		Religious Reactions in Post-Revolutionary French Literature: Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Stael, Joseph de Maistre by Richard Fargher		257
13		A Not Exclusive Truth: An Early Nineteenth-Century Pastoral Theology and Erasmus by Bruce Mansfield		275
14		The Office of Chief Rabbi: A Very English Institution by Aubrey Newman		299
15		'A footing beyond time': Church, State, and the Individual in Carlyle's Historical Writing by Laurence Le Quesne		309
16		L'Eglise, l'Etat et l'Universite: Les Facultes de Theologie Catholique en France an XIX[superscript e] Siecle by Bruno Neveu		325
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"Worthy of McManners...a superlative and prolific historian of, especially, Old R gime French religion."--Religious Studies Review

"The essays are well documented and scholarly."--History

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