Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France

Download or read book Church and Culture in Seventeenth-Century France written by Henry Phillips and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-01-09 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.