Patriot and Priest: Jean-Baptiste Volfius and the Constitutional Church in the Côte-d'Or 9780773559875
A regional study of the French Revolution's constitutional church that examines the career of a committed bishop an
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Table of contents :
Cover
PATRIOT AND PRIEST
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1 | Creating a Diocese: The Case of Dijon
2 | 1789: The Diocese of Dijon’s Clergy in a Revolutionary Year
3 | A Bishop for the Côte-d’Or
4 | Organizing the Constitutional Church in the Côte-d’Or
5 | The First Terror against the Clergy, 1792
6 | Battling Fanaticism: Dechristianization in the Côte-d’Or
7 | The Campaign for Religious Liberty and Establishing the Gallican Church
8 | Religious Pluralism and the Early Directory, 1795–1797
9 | Targeting Fanaticism and Cultivating Citizens
10 | Reviving Conciliarism in the Gallican Church: National Councils and the Synod of the Côte-d’Or
Conclusion
Epilogue
Appendix A: Careers of Eleven Constitutional Clergy Elected in the District of Arnay-le-Duc in March 1791
Appendix B: Abbé Reinert’s Research on the Ecclesiastical Oath of 1791 in the Côte-d’Or
Notes
Bibliography
Index
