Public Life in Toulouse, 1463–1789 : : From Municipal Republic to Cosmopolitan City /

Public Life in Toulouse, 1463–1789 : : From Municipal Republic to Cosmopolitan City / / Robert A. Schneider.

This book focuses on the public life of the ancien regime over the course of more than 300 years, from the late fifteenth century to the French Revolution. Not merely a narrative of that crowded history, it offers both a reconstruction and an analysis of a variety of religious and cultural movements...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
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Schneider, Robert A.,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2019]
©1990
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 24 b&w illustrations, 15 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Figures and Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Abbreviations
  • PART 1: INTRODUCTION
  • Prelude
  • 1. Early Modern Toulouse
  • PART II: PUBLIC LIFE IN THE MUNICIPAL REPUBLIC
  • 2. A Renaissance City
  • 3. A Holy City
  • INTERLUDE
  • 4. A Libertine Moment
  • PART III: PUBLIC LIFE AND THE COUNTER-REFORMATION
  • 5. The Background to Lay Activism
  • 6. Devotion-Spiritual and Social
  • 7. Spiritual Kinship
  • PART IV: THE EMERGING COSMOPOLITAN CITY
  • 8. Cultural Absolutism
  • 9. Elites between Versailles and the People
  • 10. A Divided City
  • 11. The Cosmopolitan City
  • Conclusion
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index

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