Patroness of Paris: Rituals of Devotion in Early Modern France.
Larissa Juliet Taylor|Moshe Sluhovsky
This work examines the interactions among religious practices, urbanization processes, and rise of French Absolutism. It focuses on cult Sainte Genevieve, patron saint Paris, ways in which social political developments Paris between 1400 Revolution shaped were, turn, by it. The first section analyzes development cult, its liturgy practitioners, medieval construction as a patroness city. second part follows transformations public rituals invocations saint, appropriations municipal royal authorities. third devotional practices composition lay confraternity honour saint.
The Sixteenth century journal