Title The Jesuit myth : conspiracy theory and politics in nineteenth-century France / Geoffrey Cubitt

Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1993

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 346 pages) Contents 1. Anti-Jesuitism and the Jesuits -- 2. The Restoration -- 3. The July Monarchy -- 4. The Road to Article 7 -- 5. Structures, Imagery, and Argument -- 6. Murder, Money, and Spies -- 7. Jesuits in Plain Clothes -- 8. The Confessor and the School -- 9. History and Morality -- 10. Jesuits and Jesuitism Summary This book examines one of the most remarkable political myths of the modern era. The image of a Jesuit conspiracy against state, society, and modern civilization haunted the imaginations of European liberals for most of the nineteenth century. This book examines the operations and structures of this conspiracy theory in one of its main centres of influence: France It examines the functions which the Jesuit myth performed in nineteenth-century French politics, and provides a detailed analysis of its thematic development, rhetorical strategies, and internal tensions. The book relates the influence of anti-Jesuit beliefs to the Jesuits' own position in nineteenth-century society and religious and political life; but its major contribution is to show how the myth expressed the deeper anxieties and served the broader mental needs of French liberals and republicans in an age of political instability At the cost of encouraging mistrust and intransigence in French politics, the Jesuit myth played an important part in forging the political identity of the moderate French Left. In an innovative Conclusion, the author also places the Jesuit myth in the large context of long-term evolutions in the character and significance of conspiracy theories as an ingredient in modern political mentalities Analysis Politics Related to Society France Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-333) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Print version record Subject Jesuits -- France -- History -- 19th century Jesuits -- France -- Public opinion SUBJECT Jesuits fast Subject Public opinion -- France Conspiracies -- France -- History -- 19th century Conspiracies Public opinion Jezuïeten. Politieke situatie. Mythevorming. Samenzwering. SUBJECT France -- Church history -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051181 France -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85051396 Subject France Genre/Form Electronic books Church history History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780191678790 0191678791

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