1st Edition
The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities
By Rose-Marie Peake
Copyright 2020
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
246 Pages
by
Routledge
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The Power of Religious Societies in Shaping Early Modern Society and Identities studies the value system of the French Catholic community the Filles de la Charité, or the Daughters of Charity, in the first half of the seventeenth century. An analysis of the activities aimed at edifying morality in the different strata of society revealed a Christian anthropology with strong links to medieval... Read more
Acknowledgements, Introduction, I. At the cradle: gender and power in seventeenth-century Parisian society, II. Portrait of Louise de Marillac: ensuring resources for moral management, III. Portrait of the Daughter of Charity: safeguarding the execution of moral management, IV. Portrait of the underprivileged: managing the ignorant substitute of Christ, Sources, Note on vocabulary, Index
Biography
Dr Rose-Marie Peake is a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experiences, Tampere University. She specializes in the religious and gender history of early modern France.
