1791 Ecclesiastical Oath
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French Revolution
Gournay-en-Bray
Haguenau
Is-sur-Tille
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Pont-a-Mousson
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religious institutions
religious politics
small towns
social capital
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Vienne
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- ISBN 9781526159137
- Weight: 535g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 02 Aug 2022
- Publisher: Manchester University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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Comprising five microhistories, this book proposes that the French Revolution’s religious politics in small towns weakened democratic society to such an extent that it precluded political democracy. It details two revolutionary dynamics that damaged the civic life of small towns: social polarisation and the loss of local institutions that had been a source of social capital as well as a common good. Detailed narratives about Pont-à-Mousson, Gournay-en-Bray, Vienne, Haguenau and Is-sur-Tille also reveal that contrary to the view upheld by many scholars, small-town religious politics extended far beyond the pivotal Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791. Other developments — the nationalisation of Church property, the dissolution of religious orders, and the elimination of bishoprics, chapters, parishes and collegial churches — also adversely affected the wellbeing of these small urban communities not only in the Revolution but also in the two centuries that followed.
Edward J. Woell is Professor of History at Western Illinois University
