Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France [Hardcover]

A study of the involvement of the Catholic Church in the cultural life of France in the seventeenth century.This original and far-reaching study looks afresh at the involvement of the Catholic church in the cultural life of France in the seventeenth century. Professor Phillips provides a comprehensive overview of art and literature, education, ideas and censorship, and he focuses on the church as a reforming and reformed institution in the context of the Counter-Reformation. The strength of his synthesis, the first of its kind in English, lies in the breadth of its concerns and in its combination of social, religious and intellectual history.This original and far-reaching study looks afresh at the involvement of the Catholic church in the cultural life of France in the seventeenth century. Professor Phillips provides a comprehensive overview of art and literature, education, ideas and censorship, and he focuses on the church as a reforming and reformed institution in the context of the Counter-Reformation. The strength of his synthesis, the first of its kind in English, lies in the breadth of its concerns and in its combination of social, religious and intellectual history.This original and far-reaching study looks afresh at the involvement of the Catholic Church in the cultural life of France in the seventeenth century. Professor Phillips provides a comprehensive overview of art and literature, education, ideas and censorship, and he focuses on the Church as a reforming and reformed institution in the context of the Counter-Reformation. The strength of his synthesis, the first of its kind in English, lies in the breadth of its concerns and in its combination of social, religious and intellectual history.Introduction; 1. The spaces of belief; 2. The spaces of representation; 3. The spaces of education; 4. The spaces of dissension; 5. The space of ideas; 6. The spaces of discussion; 7. The spaces of hostility: belief; 8. The spaces of hostility: unbelief; 9. Thl#]