Religion and Revolution in France, 1780-1804.(Book Review)

Church History | December 1, 2002| | Copyright

By Nigel Aston. Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2000. xii + 435 pp. $44.95 cloth; $24.95 paper.

Nigel Aston's ouvrage de synthese has followed soon after a magisterial study by Aston's mentor, John McManners, Church and Society in Eighteenth-Century France, 2 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon, 1998); many years after McManners's gem of conciseness and clarity, The Franch Revolution and the Church (London: S.P.C.K. to the Church Historical Society, 1969). Depending upon the time of day and the mood you are in, Aston might seem an ideal combination of the ...

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