Liturgy, politics, and salvation : the Catholic League in Paris and the nature of Catholic reform, 1540-1630
"Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540-1630 analyzes the contest between the Catholic League and the sovereign authority of the French crown from the perspective of the culture wars that were part of the European Reformation. In Paris, the partisan politics of the period were inseparable from broader religious debates in which Huguenots, Politiques, and zealous Catholics clashed over the proper relations between the sacred and the profane. Ramsey employs a new method for the analysis of symbolic behaviors to reveal the relations between political and religious engagement and cultural change at a crucial moment in the development of the French nation."--Jacket
Print Book, English, 1999
University of Rochester Press, Rochester, NY, 1999
Church history
xiii, 447 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm
9781580460316, 1580460313
40693912
Part 1 Introduction - League piety - definitions and concepts: the historical context - politics, religion and the emergence of the Catholic League in Paris. Part 2 Calvin, the Council of Trent, and zealous Catholicism: Calvin and the critique of performativity; sacred performance and the tasks of Tridentine reform; Leaguer zeal and Politique rationality - gesture and competing visions of authority. Part 3 Immanence and sacred performance in League piety: the quantitative analysis of symbolic behaviour; "Paris Ligeuer", 1590 - the fusion of the civic and the sacred; the League and the definition of Catholic reform - an experiential approach; the boundaries of community and the body of Christ; cultural meaning in the ascendancy of five over 13. Conclusion: economics of salvation c1540-c1630 - the nature of the sacred and the power to make meaning. Epilogue: the triumph of transcendence - science and "homo religiosus" on the eve of the Enlightenment. Appendices: genealogical table of the houses of Valois and Bourbon; genealogical table for the chief Catholic princely houses of Guise and Lorraine; eight variables to analyze performativity; Leaguers - criteria for identification and basic testator data, 1590; master notary chart, 1590; overall performativity ranking for notaries, 1590; the world of Leaguer preachers and clerics; testator members of the university milieu; 21 testators using service-related number symbolism, 1590; 14 testators using symbolic numbers in bequests to the poor, 1590; the coding of a will; comparison of Leaguers with a reference population of non-Leaguers, 1590 - comparison with testator populations of 1543-44 and 1630.
Map on lining papers