Fathers, pastors and kings : visions of episcopacy in seventeenth-century France
Fathers, Pastors and Kings is a first-class research monograph on an important issue in the history of the Catholic Church, exploring the conceptions of episcopacy that shaped the identity of the bishops of France in the wake of the reforming Council of T
eBook, English, 2004
Manchester University Press ; Distributed in USA by Palgrave, Manchester, New York, 2004
Church history
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Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Map of French dioceses
Introduction
Catholic renewal and episcopal traditions in the sixteenth century
The most perfect state: French clerical reformers and episcopal status
Lower clergy versus bishops
Ecclesiastical monarchy or monarchies?
An uneasy alliance
Manuals and hagiography: mirrors of French ideals?
Conclusion
Appendix: Chronology of principal events
Bibliography
Index
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