Planting the Cross: Catholic Reform and Renewal in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century France

Planting the Cross exposes the challenges that French convents and monasteries faced as they struggled to survive the civil wars that reduced the country to near anarchy in the sixteenth century and then to raise standards and instill a new piety in their members in the wake of the wars.

• | Author: Barbara B. Diefendorf
• | Publisher: Oxford University Press
• | Publication Date: Mar 15, 2019
• | Number of Pages: 232 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 0190887028
• | ISBN-13: 9780190887025