Catholic Particularity In Seventeenth Century French Writing

Author : Richard Parish
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191618819

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Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing by Richard Parish Pdf

'le christianisme est étrange' - Pascal, Pensées Pascal's assertion that 'Christianity is strange', provides the theme for Richard Parish's exploration of Catholic particularity, as it was expressed in the writing of the French seventeenth century. This was a period of quite exceptional fertility in a range of genres: apologetics, sermons, devotional manuals, catechisms, martyr tragedies, lyric poetry, polemic and spiritual autobiography. Parish examines a broad cross-section of this corpus with reference to the topics of apologetics, physicality, language, discernment, polemics and salvation; and draws evidence both from canonical figures (Pascal, Bossuet, Fénelon, St François de Sales, Madame Guyon) and from less easily-available texts. Parish aims to consider all those distinctive features that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to the surface in France, and to do so in support of the numerous ways in which Christian doctrine could be understood as being strange: it is by turns contrary to expectations, paradoxical, divisive, carnal and inexpressible. These features are exploited imaginatively in the more conventional literary forms, didactically in pulpit oratory and empirically in the accounts of personal spiritual experience. In addition they are manifested polemically in debates surrounding penance, authority, inspiration and eschatology, and often push orthodoxy to its limits and beyond in the course of their articulation. This volume provides an unsettling account of a belief system to which early-modern France often unquestioningly subscribed, and shows how the element of cultural assimilation of Catholic Christianity into much of Western Europe only tenuously contains a subversive and counter-intuitive creed. The degree to which that remains the case will be for the reader to decide.

Author : Richard Parish
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-07-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199596669

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Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing by Richard Parish Pdf

A vivid account of the belief system of early-modern France as expressed in different writing genres from sermons to martyr tragedies, lyric poetry to spiritual autobiography. Parish considers the distinctive doctrines that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to light.

Author : Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317097426

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Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy by Emilia Wilton-Godberfforde Pdf

The first book-length study devoted to this topic, Mendacity and the Figure of the Liar in Seventeenth-Century French Comedy offers an important contribution to scholarship on the theatre as well as on early modern attitudes in France, specifically on the subject of lying and deception. Unusually for a scholarly work on seventeenth-century theatre, it is particularly alert to plays as performed pieces and not simply printed texts. The study also distinguishes itself by offering original readings of Molière alongside innovative analyses of other playwrights. The chapters offer fresh insights on well-known plays by Molière and Pierre Corneille but also invite readers to discover lesser-known works of the time (by writers such as Benserade, Thomas Corneille, Dufresny and Rotrou). Through comparative and sustained close readings, including a linguistic and speech act approach, a historical survey of texts with an analysis of different versions and a study of irony, the reader is shown the manifest ways in which different playwrights incorporate the comedic tropes of lying and scheming, confusion and unmasking. Drawing particular attention to the levels of communicative or mis-communicative exchanges on the character-to-character axis and the character-to-audience axis, this work examines the process whereby characters in the comedies construct narratives designed to trick, misdirect, dazzle, confuse or exploit their interlocutors. In the different incarnations of seducer, parasite, cross-dresser, duplicitous narrator/messenger and deluded mythomaniac, the author underscores the way in which the figure of the liar both entertains and troubles, making it a fascinating subject worthy of detailed investigation.

Author : Diarmaid MacCulloch
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781101638064

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Silence by Diarmaid MacCulloch Pdf

A provocative meditation on the role of silence in Christian tradition by the New York Times bestselling author of Christianity We live in a world dominated by noise. Religion is, for many, a haven from the clamor of everyday life, allowing us to pause for silent contemplation. But as Diarmaid MacCulloch shows, there are many forms of religious silence, from contemplation and prayer to repression and evasion. In his latest work, MacCulloch considers Jesus’s strategic use of silence in his confrontation with Pontius Pilate and traces the impact of the first mystics in Syria on monastic tradition. He discusses the complicated fate of silence in Protestant and evangelical tradition and confronts the more sinister institutional forms of silence. A groundbreaking book by one of our greatest historians, Silence challenges our fundamental views of spirituality and illuminates the deepest mysteries of faith.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9789004415065

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Racine's Andromaque by Anonim Pdf

Racine’s Andromaque: Absences and Displacements casts a new look at the dynamism, richness, and complexity of Racine’s first major tragedy, through a collection of articles specially commissioned by the editors Nicholas Hammond and Joseph Harris.

Author : Ellen McClure
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845508

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The Logic of Idolatry in Seventeenth-century French Literature by Ellen McClure Pdf

Idolatry was one of the dominant and most contentious themes of early modern religious polemics. This book argues that many of the best-known literary and philosophical works of the French seventeenth century were deeply engaged and concerned with the theme. In a series of case studies and close readings, it shows that authors used the logic of idolatry to interrogate the fractured and fragile relationship between the divine and the human, with particular attention to the increasingly fraught question of the legitimacy of human agency. Reading d'Urf , Descartes, La Fontaine, S vign , Molire, and Racine through the lens of idolatry reveals heretofore hidden aspects of their work, all while demonstrating the link between the emergent autonomy of literature and philosophy and the confessional conflicts that dominated the period. In so doing, Professor McClure illustrates how religion can become a source of interpretive complexity, and how this dynamism can and should be taken into account in early modern French studies and beyond. ELLEN MCCLURE is Associate Professor of History and French, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Author : M. Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:499602752

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Studies in Seventeenth Century by M. Bishop Pdf

Author : Peter Rickard
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : France
ISBN : 0859913538

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The French Language in the Seventeenth Century by Peter Rickard Pdf

The sixty French texts edited here are all direct commentaries, by contemporary authors, on the French language in the 17th century. By this time, French had begun to assert its independence; in its written and printed form it was being used for a wide variety of literary, technical and administrative purposes. Its practitioners not only successfully challenged the hitherto dominant position of Latin, but also began, for the first time, to discuss and analyse for its own sake the language which was now their preferred medium for expression -- hence, in the first half of the seventeenth century, a growing number of publications on the nature and characteristics of French. The texts demonstrate the sustained critical preoccupationwith the welfare of the French language in the 17th century, and illustrate the various ways in which the writers of the age contributed to its development as an instrument of literary expression and social intercourse.

Author : Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : French literature
ISBN : HARVARD:32044072051337

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History of French Literature in the Eighteenth Century by Alexandre Rodolphe Vinet Pdf

Author : Elizabeth Rapley
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : 0773511016

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The DŽvotes by Elizabeth Rapley Pdf

An account of the feminization of the Church in 17th-century France and as far abroad as New France. This book is intended for students of 17th century France, historians of religion and gender.

Author : Michael Moriarty
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780192588999

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Pascal: Reasoning and Belief by Michael Moriarty Pdf

This book is a study of Blaise Pascal's defence of Christian belief in the Pensées. Michael Moriarty aims to expound—and in places to criticize—what he argues is a coherent and original apologetic strategy. Setting out the basic philosophical and theological presuppositions of Pascal's project, the present volume draws the distinction between convictions attained by reason and those inspired by God-given faith. It also presents Pascal's view of the contradictions within human nature, between the 'wretchedness' (our inability to live the life of reason, to attain secure and durable happiness) and the 'greatness' (the power of thought, manifested in the very awareness of our wretchedness). His mind-body dualism and his mechanistic conception of non-human animals are discussed. Pascal invokes the biblical story of the Fall and the doctrine of original sin as the only credible explanation of these contradictions. His analysis of human occupations as powered by the twin desire to escape from painful thoughts and to gratify one's vanity is subjected to critical examination, as is his conception of the self and self-love. Pascal argues that just as Christianity propounds the only explanation for the human condition, so it offers the only kind of happiness that would satisfy our deepest longings. He thus reasons that we have an interest in investigating its truth-claims as rooted in the Bible and in history. The closing chapters of this book discuss Pascal's view of Christian morality and the famous 'wager' argument for opting in favour of Christian belief.

Author : Dr Joseph Bergin,Joseph Bergin
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 788 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0300067518

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The Making of the French Episcopate, 1589-1661 by Dr Joseph Bergin,Joseph Bergin Pdf

This major work, written by one of the leading historians of France's ancien regime, is the first 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 particular he shows how the crown painfully and 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, the result of years of research in French and Italian archives, includes an extensive biographical dictionary that will make it an invaluable reference for allFrench historians of the period.

Author : Andrew Pettegree,Paul Nelles
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351881890

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The Sixteenth-Century French Religious Book by Andrew Pettegree,Paul Nelles Pdf

This study comprises the proceedings of a conference held in St Andrews in 1999 which gathered some of the most distinguished historians of the French book. It presents the 16th-century book in a new context and provides the first comprehensive view of this absorbing field. Four major themes are reflected here: the relationship between the manuscript tradition and the printed book; an exploration of the variety of genres that emerged in the 16th century and how they were used; a look at publishing and book-selling strategies and networks, and the ways in which the authorities tried to control these; and a discussion of the way in which confessional literature diverged and converged. The range of specialist knowledge embedded in this study will ensure its appeal to specialists in French history, scholars of the book and of 16th-century French literature, and historians of religion.

Author : Morris Bishop
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Bishop, Morris
ISBN : LCCN:62010732

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Studies in Seventeenth-century French Literature by Morris Bishop Pdf

Author : Max Gauna
Publisher : Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Atheism
ISBN : 0838634397

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Upwellings by Max Gauna Pdf

"This study of the roots and expression of free thought in the Renaissance consists of three parts. The first is a overview of the history of dissident ideas up to and including the first part of the sixteenth century; the second is an examination and a new interpretation of the Cymbalum Mundi, probably by Bonaventure des Periers; the third is a presentation and interpretation of the Dialogues of Jacques Tahureau. Both works are seen to take their place as resurgences of a continuous though necessarily mostly covert current of dissident thought and feeling which was to well openly to the surface in the libertinism of the seventeenth century and be seen in full flood in the age of the Enlightenment." "Many critics in the early years of this century and before have seen in the French Renaissance a time and period when such resurgences were fairly common. Others, particularly since the work of Lucien Febvre in the 1940s, have regarded these upwellings as imaginary, and have even denied the existence of the dissident tradition, viewing the whirlpools of the next century and the final tide-rip of the Enlightenment as spontaneously occurring phenomena with no reference to the history of ideas after the Classical period. Some remarkable recent work, none of it in English, has concentrated on establishing the existence of the dissident current itself, while considering its printed manifestations as either illusory or too obscure to establish with precision. The first part of the book describes succinctly the salient features of the dissident tradition, taking account of the indispensable but enormous and unwieldy theses of Busson and Berriot (both are available only in French, and Berriot's, whose sixteenth-century material is superbly documented, attends not at all to non-French scholarship), the brilliantly iconoclastic but politically biased work of Gerhard Schneider (available only in German and Italian), and the contributions of modern Italian scholars of the seventeenth-century period, especially Tullio Gregory. The bringing together of this material is itself new. Max Gauna also has his own contributions to make, and he propounds a different and original perspective of the question." "The second part deals with one of the most celebrated of all literary mysteries: controversy has attended the Cymbalum Mundi since it appeared, and while recent studies have seen it as a Christian work, Gauna sets out an original analytical interpretation of the text leading to a synthesis drawing the opposite conclusion." "Interest in the Dialogues of Tahureau has been growing throughout this century; they are considered in all the histories of free thought mentioned above. Gauna places this work within the dissident tradition by reference in particular to the Epicurean source material. Both the Cymbalum Mundi and the Dialogues are thus shown as daring and subtle disseminators of those dissident ideas which would flower in the productions of the next two centuries."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved