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Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France: The Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791
By (Author) Timothy Tackett
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Religion and politics
944.041
Hardback
448
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
567g
The imposition of a loyalty oath on French clergymen in the winter of 1790 was a turning point in the Revolutionary decade after 1789. What is more, there is a remarkable similarity between the geography of this oath--the regional percentages of those who accepted or rejected it--and the geographic patterns of religious practice and political behav