Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France

Death and the Enlightenment is an unusual survey of the daily rituals, customs, and attitudes surrounding death and dying in 18th-century France. Focusing on the tension between the faithful and the growing ranks of unbelievers bred on Enlightenment philosophy, McManners charts the course of pestilence and plague, and examines the terrible fears connected with childbirth, disease, disfigurement, mortality, and the hereafter. He also examines suicide, public execution, and the rites surrounding the deathbed, and demonstrates how the period's ever-present concern with death and dying was transformed into the Romantic cult of melancholy that occupied the creative imagination of generations to come.

Politics & Social Sciences

McManners, John

Social Sciences

Oxford University Press

Death and the Enlightenment is an unusual survey of the daily rituals, customs, and attitudes surrounding death and dying in 18th-century France. Focusing on the tension between the faithful and the growing ranks of unbelievers bred on Enlightenment philosophy, McManners charts the course of pestilence and plague, and examines the terrible fears connected with childbirth, disease, disfigurement, mortality, and the hereafter. He also examines suicide, public execution, and the rites surrounding the deathbed, and demonstrates how the period's ever-present concern with death and dying was transformed into the Romantic cult of melancholy that occupied the creative imagination of generations to come.

Parenting & Relationships

This is the first of two volumes in McManner's magesterial reconstruction of the complex hierarchical world of the Gallican Church destroyed by the French Revolution. It describes the diocesan and parochial structure of the Church, portraying the clergy and their lifestyle from the palaces of the aristocratic bishops to the humblest nunnery, and, in a multitude of portraits, analyzing their motivations and sense of vocation. In a detailed fresco he presents the religion of the people, whether centering in the parish church or in confaternities, and the observances of folk religion outside it.

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

History

Europe

In this second volume of McManner's magnum opus, the author explores the relations of Church and State: the wealth of the clergy and their payment of taxation, and their role in the official life of the nation, in the Court at Versailles, in the army and navy, in collaboration with the police, and on the scaffold. He details throughout the tensions within the Church establishment and between clergy and laity, arriving at their denouement in the final description of the descent of the reign of Louis XVI towards the Revolution.

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

Clarendon Press

Volume 1 describes the relations of Church and State, the wealth of the Church, and its role in national life from Versailles to the scaffold. Dioceses, parishes, and the monastic structure are presented in detail, and the vocation and life-style of the clergy as in mesh with every aspect of social living.

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 1: The Clerical Establishment and its Social Ramification (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

Volume 2 concerns the religion of the people from religious practice and the routines of official devotion to 'popular religion' in all its aspects, from confraternities and pilgrimages to the dark margins of superstition. There is a section on morals, the confessional, commercial morality, sexual passion, and the theatre. Finally, two extended sections, one on the great Jesuit-Jansenist struggle incorporated in the feuds of Crown and Parlement, the other on the role of the Church in relations with the religious minorities -- Protestants and Jews.

A history of the Church during the French Revolution and its impact on the course of world history. The understanding of what happened to the Church during this period is seen as a distinct aid to one's understanding of the Revolution itself.

The French Revolution and the Church (Church history outlines, 4)

Religion & Spirituality

S.P.C.K. for the Church Historical Society

A history of the Church during the French Revolution and its impact on the course of world history. The understanding of what happened to the Church during this period is seen as a distinct aid to one's understanding of the Revolution itself.

The French Revolution and the Church

World

Praeger

Fusilier: Recollections and Reflections 1939-1945

Michael Russell Publishing Ltd

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Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France

Death and the Enlightenment: Changing Attitudes to Death among Christians and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 2: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 1: The Clerical Establishment and its Social Ramification (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France (Oxford History of the Christian Church)

The French Revolution and the Church (Church history outlines, 4)

The French Revolution and the Church

Fusilier: Recollections and Reflections 1939-1945