num_pages: 242
description: Philip Hoffman's richly detailed study of Lyon from the end of the Middle Ages to the dawn of the French Revolution focuses on lay piety and on the social role of the parish clergy. Hoffman shows how the Counter Reformation forged an alliance between devout urban elites on the one hand, and the diocesan hierarchy and the urban clergy on the other. By analyzing the surviving books published in Strasbourg during the Reformation era, Chrisman provides a new perspective from which to examine the cultural forces that influenced the thinking of this period.
language: English
title: Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1500-1789
titlecomplete: Church and Community in the Diocese of Lyon, 1500-1789 (Yale Historical Publications Series)
publisher: Yale University Press