Liturgy, Politics, and Salvation: The Catholic League in Paris and the Nature of Catholic Reform, 1540-1630

Abstract

Part 1 Introduction - League piety - definitions and concepts: the historical context - politics, religion and the emergence of the Catholic League in Paris. Part 2 Calvin, the Council of Trent, and zealous Catholicism: Calvin and the critique of performativity sacred performance and the tasks of Tridentine reform Leaguer zeal and Politique rationality - gesture and competing visions of authority. Part 3 Immanence and sacred performance in League piety: the quantitative analysis of symbolic behaviour Paris Ligeuer, 1590 - the fusion of the civic and the sacred the League and the definition of Catholic reform - an experiential approach the boundaries of community and the body of Christ cultural meaning in the ascendancy of five over 13. Conclusion: economics of salvation c1540-c1630 - the nature of the sacred and the power to make meaning. Epilogue: the triumph of transcendence - science and homo religiosus on the eve of the Enlightenment. Appendices: genealogical table of the houses of Valois and Bourbon genealogical table for the chief Catholic princely houses of Guise and Lorraine eight variables to analyze performativity Leaguers - criteria for identification and basic testator data, 1590 master notary chart, 1590 overall performativity ranking for notaries, 1590 the world of Leaguer preachers and clerics testator members of the university milieu 21 testators using service-related number symbolism, 1590 14 testators using symbolic numbers in bequests to the poor, 1590 the coding of a will comparison of Leaguers with a reference population of non-Leaguers, 1590 - comparison with testator populations of 1543-44 and 1630.

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