Devoted Politics: Jesuits and Elite Catholic Women at the Later Sixteenth-century Valois Court

This essay analyses how elite women at the sixteenth-century French court interacted with the Jesuits, in the context of the spiritual and political ambitions of all participants. Focusing particularly on the dynamic relationship between Catherine de Medici and the Jesuits, contextualized by the exp...

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Main Author: Broomhall, Susan 1974- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2015
In: Journal of Jesuit studies
Year: 2015, Volume: 2, Issue: 4, Pages: 586-605
IxTheo Classification:CG Christianity and Politics
KAG Church history 1500-1648; Reformation; humanism; Renaissance
KBG France
KCA Monasticism; religious orders
KDB Roman Catholic Church
Further subjects:B Women patronage devotion confraternities processions religious wars politics ultra-Catholic League France Valois
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