Patroness of Paris: Rituals of Devotion in Early Modern France

Erscheinungsjahr 1997
ISBN: 978-90-04-10851-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 3, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 164 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 658 g

Reihe: Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions: Medieval and Early Modern Peoples

The book examines the interactions among religious practices, urbanization processes, and the rise of French Absolutism. It focuses on the cult of Sainte Geneviève, the patron saint of Paris, and the ways in which social and political developments in Paris between 1400 and the French Revolution shaped the cult and were, in turn, shaped by it.
The first section analyzes the development of the cult, its liturgy and cult practitioners, in medieval Paris, and the construction of the saint as a patroness of the city.
The second part follows the transformations in public rituals of invocations of the saint, and the appropriations of the cult by municipal and royal authorities.
The third section focuses on the devotional practices and social composition of the lay confraternity in honor of the saint.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sluhovsky

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder

Über Autor(innen)

Moshe Sluhovsky, Ph.D. (1992), Princeton University, is a Lecturer in History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.