{"product_id":"planting-the-cross-catholic-reform-and-renewal-in-sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century-france-9780190887025","title":"Planting the Cross: Catholic Reform and Renewal in Sixteenth- And Seventeenth-Century France","description":"The first thing that Catholic religious orders did when they arrived in a town to establish a new community was to plant the cross--to erect a large wooden cross where the church was to stand. The cross was a contested symbol in the civil wars that reduced France to near anarchy in the\u003cbr\u003esixteenth century. Protestants tore down crosses to mark their disdain for popish superstition; Catholics swore to erect a thousand new crosses for every one destroyed. Fighting words at the time, the vow to erect a thousand new crosses was expressed in the rapid multiplication of reformed\u003cbr\u003ereligious congregations once peace arrived. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn this book, Barbara B. Diefendorf examines the beginnings of the Catholic Reformation in France and shows how profoundly the movement was shaped by the experience of religious war. She analyzes convents and monasteries in three regions--Paris, Provence, and Languedoc--as they struggled to survive\u003cbr\u003ethe wars and then to raise standards and instill a new piety in their members in their aftermath. What emerges are stories of nuns left homeless by the wars, of monks rebelling against both abbot and king, of ascetic friars reviving Catholic devotion in a Protestant-dominated South, and of a\u003cbr\u003eDominican order battling demonic possession. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIlluminating persistent debates about the purpose of monastic life, \u003cem\u003ePlanting the Cross \u003c\/em\u003eunderscores the diverse paths religious reform took within different local settings and offers new perspectives on the evolution of early modern French Catholicism.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara B. Diefendorf\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/15\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 232\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.70h x 6.30w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780190887025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBarbara B. Diefendorf \u003c\/strong\u003eis Professor Emerita of History at Boston University. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eFrom Penitence to Charity: Pious Women and the Catholic Reformation in Paris \u003c\/em\u003e(OUP, 2004), winner of the J. Russell Major Prize of the American Historical Association, and \u003cem\u003eBeneath the Cross: Catholics\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003eand Huguenots in Sixteenth-Century Paris\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 1991), winner of book awards from the New England Historical Association and National Huguenot Society, among other titles.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":39929225511027,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":87.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_0a72d0c8-576f-4884-9903-ce69c788e65b.jpg?v=1647612015","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/planting-the-cross-catholic-reform-and-renewal-in-sixteenth-and-seventeenth-century-france-9780190887025","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}