Christianity and Revolutionary Europe, 1750-1830

Informationen zum Autor Nigel Aston is a Lecturer in Early Modern History at the University of Leicester. His most recent book is Religion and Revolution in France, 1780–1804 (2000). Klappentext This book, first published in 2003, offers an accessible summary of religious history before and after the French Revolution. Zusammenfassung This book! first published in 2003! offers students an accessible and succinct summary of key developments in the confrontation between the Churches and the Enlightenment. The text is supported by illuminating illustrations! maps! and a helpful glossary; it will be of key interest to students of religious history and the French Revolution. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Later Eighteenth-Century Religion: 1. Church structures and ministry; 2. Beliefs, society and worship. The expression of Christianity in Europe, c.1750-90; 3. Intellectual challenges and the religious response; 4. Church and State; Part II. Revolution and its Aftermath: 5. Revolutions and the Churches: the initial impact; 6. The impact of the Revolution on religious life and practice, c.1793-1802; 7. Religion in Napoleonic Europe, 1802-15; 8. Religious revival after 1815?

Product details

• Authors: Nigel Aston, Nigel (University of Leicester) Aston
• Assisted by: William Beik (Editor), T. C. W. Blanning (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.01.2003
• EAN: 9780521460279
• ISBN: 978-0-521-46027-9
• No. of pages: 398
• Series: New Approaches to European His
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories