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Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815

Categorie	Geschiedenis Europa
Boeknummer	#229071
Titel	Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815
Auteur	Beales, Derek
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	Cambridge University Press
Jaar van uitgave	2003
ISBN10	0521590906
ISBN13	9780521590907
Taal	Engels
Samenvatting	In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of monks and nuns were growing in number and wealth. By 1750 there were at least 25,000 communities containing at least 350,000 inmates. They constructed vast buildings, dominated education, and played a large part in the practice and patronage of learning, music, and the arts. They also fulfilled an amazing variety of political, economic and social roles, notably in providing career opportunities for women. Yet many accounts of the period ignore them altogether. Prosperity and Plunder recovers this forgotten dimension of European history, assesses the importance of monasteries across Catholic Europe, and compares their position in different countries. It goes on to explain the almost complete destru... (Lees verder)ction of the monasteries between 1750 and 1815 through reforming rulers, 'Enlightenment', and the French Revolution, and asks how much society gained and lost in the process.
Pagina's	395
Conditie	Goed
Prijs	€ 80,00

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