Chatellier, Louis
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1989
Hardcover in very good condition with ink blot on page ends
An explanation for religious and social change in Catholic Europe during the three hundred years following the close of the Council of Trent in 1563. It is “a study of modern Catholicism as a social phenomenon” (p. ix). The author offers a probing analysis of one important aspect of the lay experience by tracing the development of the Marian congregations (sodalities) founded by the Jesuits at the end of the sixteenth century. The sodales were inculcated with pious habits and provided with rules of life that influenced the surrounding community. Ties were established among congregations so that by 1600 a dense network extended to various countries throughout Europe. Other confraternities and associations could not match the vast scale of the sodalities. Beyond the development of individual spirituality, the aim of these sodalities was to reform the world, that is, to found a truly devout Catholic Europe. Using a rich variety of printed and archival sources, Chatellier examines the foundation, growth, and influence of these Marian congregations across Europe in Paris, eastern France, the Rhineland, Switzerland, south Germany, Belgium, and southern Italy/
ISBN 10: 0521363330
Chatellier, Louis
Published by Cambridge University Press, 1989
Hardcover in very good condition with ink blot on page ends
An explanation for religious and social change in Catholic Europe during the three hundred years following the close of the Council of Trent in 1563. It is “a study of modern Catholicism as a social phenomenon” (p. ix). The author offers a probing analysis of one important aspect of the lay experience by tracing the development of the Marian congregations (sodalities) founded by the Jesuits at the end of the sixteenth century. The sodales were inculcated with pious habits and provided with rules of life that influenced the surrounding community. Ties were established among congregations so that by 1600 a dense network extended to various countries throughout Europe. Other confraternities and associations could not match the vast scale of the sodalities. Beyond the development of individual spirituality, the aim of these sodalities was to reform the world, that is, to found a truly devout Catholic Europe. Using a rich variety of printed and archival sources, Chatellier examines the foundation, growth, and influence of these Marian congregations across Europe in Paris, eastern France, the Rhineland, Switzerland, south Germany, Belgium, and southern Italy/
ISBN 10: 0521363330
