Fathers, pastors and kings: Visions of episcopacy in seventeenth-century France
This book explores how the conceptions of episcopacy shaped the identity of the bishops of France in the wake of the reforming Council of Trent (1545-63). It demonstrates how the episcopate, initially demoralized by the Wars of Religion, developed a powerful ideology of privilege, leadership and pas...
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Manchester University Press
2004
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