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Confiscating the Common Good - Small Towns and Religious Politics in the French Revolution (Hardcover)
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Confiscating the Common Good - Small Towns and Religious Politics in the French Revolution (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Modern French and Francophone History
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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-a-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. -- .
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