Ceremonial Splendor : : Performing Priesthood in Early Modern France / / Joy Palacios.

By the end of France’s long seventeenth century, the seminary-trained, reform-minded Catholic priest had crystalized into a type recognizable by his clothing, gestures, and ceremonial skill. Although critics denounced these priests as hypocrites or models for Molière’s Tartuffe, seminaries associate...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (288 p.) :; 11 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Note on Translations
  • Introduction: Priestly Performance, 1630–1730
  • Chapter 1. Clothing
  • Chapter 2. Gestures
  • Chapter 3. Ceremonies
  • Chapter 4. Publics
  • Chapter 5. Rivals
  • Conclusion: Ceremonial Specialization and the Divergence of Performance Repertoires
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments