Catholic particularity in Seventeenth-Century French writing
Subtitle: 'Christianity is strange'
By: Richard Parish
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780199596669
Subjects: French literature; In literature; Catholic Church; History and criticism
Description: A vivid account of the belief system of early-modern France as expressed in different writing genres from sermons to martyr tragedies, lyric poetry to spiritual autobiography. Parish considers the distinctive doctrines that the heritage of the Catholic Reformation brought to light.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [210]-217) and index.