In this Book
- Religion, Revolution, and Regional Culture in Eighteenth-Century France: The Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791
- Book
- 2014
- Published by: Princeton University Press
- Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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 behavior persisting into the twentieth century. Timothy Tackett investigates the origins and nature of this fascinating phenomenon.
Originally published in 1986.
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Table of Contents
- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Table of Contents
- pp. v-viii
- List of Tables
- pp. ix-x
- List of Figures
- pp. xi-xii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xvii-xviii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xix-xx
- PART ONEINTRODUCTION AND BACKGROUND
- PART TWOTHE CLERGY CONFRONTS THE OATH
- Clergymen Explain Their Oaths
- pp. 59-74
- Collective Portraits
- pp. 75-98
- The Ecclesiastical Milieu
- pp. 99-126
- Clerical Politics
- pp. 127-156
- PART THREEFRENCHMEN CONFRONT THE OATH
- Clerical Leadership and the Voice from Below
- pp. 159-182
- The Oath as a Referendum
- pp. 183-204
- The Protestant Menace
- pp. 205-225
- Clericalism and the Oath
- pp. 226-250
- The Urban Elites and the Oath
- pp. 251-284
- PART FOURCONCLUSIONS
- The Meaning of the Oath
- pp. 287-300
- APPENDICES
- Appendix I
- pp. 303-306
- Appendix II
- pp. 307-363
- Appendix III
- pp. 364-366
- Appendix IV
- pp. 367-368
- Appendix V
- pp. 369-372
- SOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY
- pp. 373-408