Church and State in Eighteenth Century France. By John McManners. Volume I: The Clerical Establishment and Its Social Ramifications. Volume II: The Religion of the People and the Politics of Religion. Oxford: Clarendon Press. 1998.  85 each. xviii + 817 pp.; xiv + 866 pp. ISBN 0 19 826905 6; 0 19 826963 3

2001 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 218-219
Author(s):  
W. DOYLE
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
The People ◽  
Politics Of Religion

THE FRENCH CHURCH AND THE REVOLUTION Jansénismes et Lumières: pour un autre XVIIIe siècle. By Monique Cottret. Paris: A. Michel, 1998. Pp. 418. ISBN 2-226-10475-5. 160 Fr. Frs. Catholic Revival in the age of the Baroque: religious identity in Southwest Germany, 1550–1750. By Marc R. Forster. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Pp. xiv+268. ISBN 0-521-78044-6. £40.00. Church and society in eighteenth-century France,I: The clerical establishment and its social ramifications;II: The religion of the people and the politics of religion. By John McManners. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1999. Pp. xviii+817, xiv+866. ISBN 0-19-827003-8 and 0-19-827004-6. £59.90. Christianity under the ancien régime, 1648–1789. By W. R. Ward. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii+269. ISBN 0-521-55361-X. £13.95.

2003 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 211-218
Author(s):  
DEREK BEALES
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Religious Identity ◽  
Ancien Regime ◽  
Cambridge University ◽  
The People ◽  
Politics Of Religion ◽  
Church And Society ◽  
Recent Edition ◽  
Ancien Régime

If few historians of the French ancien régime and Revolution entirely ignore the role of the Church, most treat it perfunctorily and many make crass errors in writing about it. To start with examples of error, J. F. Bosher declared in his generally admirable The French Revolution: ‘at least nine abbots wrote for the Encyclopédie’. Actually, at least twenty-three abbés did so, but no abbots. J. C. D. Clark, in his recent edition of Burke's Reflections, attempts to explain Burke's discussion of French commendatory abbots by defining commendam as it was used in England, which makes Burke's argument incomprehensible. Until now it has not been easy to find a work, at any rate in English, which would settle such matters authoritatively. McManners's Church and society in eighteenth-century France will certainly do that. A delightful chapter deals with the vast majority of abbés who were not abbots, that is, those who had taken the very first steps towards an ecclesiastical career, probably to enhance their educational prospects, but never taken vows or significant orders. To this group belonged such notorious philosophes as the abbé Diderot and the abbé Raynal.

Aristocracy about 1760: Theory and Practice

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. R. Palmer
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Social Rank ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Political Freedom ◽  
Social Utility ◽  
Class Consciousness ◽  
General Consensus ◽  
The People ◽  
Important Sense

This chapter considers the prevailing notion in the eighteenth century that nobility was a necessary bulwark of political freedom. Whether in the interest of a more open nobility or of a more closed and impenetrable nobility, the view was the same. Nobility as such, nobility as an institution, was necessary to the maintenance of a free constitution. There was also a general consensus that parliaments or ruling councils were autonomous, self-empowered, or empowered by history, heredity, social utility, or God; that they were in an important sense irresponsible, free to oppose the King (where there was one), and certainly owing no accounting to the “people.” The remainder of the chapter deals with the uses and abuses of social rank and the problems of administration, recruitment, taxation, and class consciousness.

The Oxford History of Protestant Dissenting Traditions, Volume II

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Church And State ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
Protestant Christianity ◽  
History Of ◽  
Degree Of Acceptance ◽  
Missionary Societies ◽  
Long Eighteenth Century ◽  
British State ◽  
The Relationship

This volume charts the development of protestant Dissent between the passing of the Toleration Act (1689) and the repealing of the Test and Corporation Acts (1828). The long eighteenth century was a period in which Dissenters slowly moved from a position of being a persecuted minority to achieving a degree of acceptance and, eventually, full political rights. The first part of the volume considers the history of various Dissenting traditions inside England. There are separate chapters devoted to Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers—the denominations that traced their history before this period—and also to Methodists, who emerged as one of the denominations of ‘New Dissent’ during the eighteenth century. The second part explores the ways in which these traditions developed outside England. It considers the complexities of being a Dissenter in Wales and Ireland, where the state church was Episcopalian, as well as in Scotland, where it was Presbyterian. It also looks at the development of Dissent across the Atlantic, where the relationship between Church and state was rather more loose. The third part is devoted to revivalist movements and their impact, with a particular emphasis on the importance of missionary societies for spreading protestant Christianity from the late eighteenth century onwards. The fourth part looks at Dissenters’ relationship to the British state and their involvement in campaigns to abolish the slave trade. The final part discusses how Dissenters lived: the theology they developed and their attitudes towards Scripture; the importance of both sermons and singing; their involvement in education and print culture; and the ways in which they expressed their faith materially through their buildings.

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