Patroness of Paris - Rituals of Devotion in Early Modern France

Sluhovsky, Moshe

ISBN 10: 9004108513 / ISBN 13: 9789004108516

Published by E. J. Brill, Leiden, 1998

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266 pag Size: 2m2.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Patroness of Paris - Rituals of Devotion in Early Modern France
• Publisher: E. J. Brill, Leiden
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004108513
• ISBN 13: 9789004108516
• Binding: Cloth with dust jacket
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Cultuur Geschiedenis - Cultural History

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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