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This comprehensive survey of Jansenism and Convulsionism in France places the Jansenist movement in the context of French political, social, economic, religious, and intellectual developments in the 17th and 18th centuries. With biographical sketches of its key leaders and an analysis of their major writings, this work highlights both the movement s internal conflicts and its struggles against church and state persecution. From letters, diaries, books, and speeches, author Brian Strayer explains such important Jansenist themes as suffering, saintliness, truth, conflict, passive resistance,...

This comprehensive survey of Jansenism and Convulsionism in France places the Jansenist movement in the context of French political, social, economic, religious, and intellectual developments in the 17th and 18th centuries. With biographical sketches of its key leaders and an analysis of their major writings, this work highlights both the movement s internal conflicts and its struggles against church and state persecution. From letters, diaries, books, and speeches, author Brian Strayer explains such important Jansenist themes as suffering, saintliness, truth, conflict, passive resistance,...

The Bellicose Dove is the first English biography of the Huguenot lawyer, preacher, diplomat and martyr Claude Brousson in 150 years. It examines his life (1647-98), letters, sermons, books, and the role he played in resisting Louis XIV's persecution of the Huguenots until his death on the scaffold in 1698.

"The Pharisees showed off their goodness by praying in synonyms" . . . "The fourteenth century was an unpleasant era to be alive in, much less dead in" . . . "The Vaccuum is a large empty space where the popes live in Rome" . . .

This is the history you never learned in school (or maybe you did).

Art Linkletter once noted that small children often mix fantasy and reality, making their views of everyday life wildly askew. But when the Baby Boomers and Generation Xers entered college, they were still mixing fantasy and reality, as their history and English essays demonstrated in a...