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Scandal in the Parish Karen E. Carter

Scandal in the Parish By Karen E. Carter

Scandal in the Parish by Karen E. Carter


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An eye-opening examination of rural French Catholicism through stories told by priests and parishioners in church court records.

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Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 2 by Karen E. Carter

In 1770, the priest Nicolas Vernier was accused of neglecting church services, inappropriate behaviour in the confessional, financial improprieties, and affairs with the village schoolmistresses. In a contentious church court case, parishioners described all of their priest's wrongdoings, and in turn, he detailed many of theirs. Ultimately, Vernier finished his career as a cathedral canon in another diocese. Scandal in the Parish recounts Vernier's story and many similar eighteenth-century cases. In fascinating detail that reveals essential facets of rural religion during the Catholic Reformation period, Karen Carter considers French lay people's relationship with their parish cure, who governed and influenced so much of their religious practice. Although the priest's role as purveyor of God's grace through the sacraments was secure as long as he performed his duties appropriately, priests who were unable to navigate the pressures and high expectations put on them by their superiors and parishioners risked broken relationships, public disturbances of the peace, and even prosecution. These scandals, Carter demonstrates, tell us much about rural parish life, the processes of negotiation and accommodation between cures and their parishioners, and ongoing religious reforms and enforcement throughout the eighteenth century. An engaging venture into the world of the parish that highlights the centrality of the priest-parishioner relationship, Scandal in the Parish reveals the attitudes and practices of ordinary people who were active agents in their religious and spiritual lives.

Scandal in the Parish Reviews

In this well-written and clearly argued study, Carter forcefully corrects the notion that Catholicism declined in importance in the period before the Revolution. Reinforcing the important work of Timothy Tackett and others, she shows that popular anticlericalism was a result of the Revolution, not a cause of it. Jeremy Hayhoe, Universite de Moncton

About Karen E. Carter

Karen E. Carter is associate professor of history at Brigham Young University.

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CIN0773556613G
9780773556614
0773556613
Scandal in the Parish: Priests and Parishioners Behaving Badly in Eighteenth-Century France: Volume 2 by Karen E. Carter
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McGill-Queen's University Press
2019-05-15
312
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