The Travails of Conscience

Autorentext
Alexander Sedgwick is University Professor, Emeritus, the University of Virginia.

Klappentext
family reacted to momentous political and religious developments, as well as the ways in which individual members, by means of their own convictions, helped shape the history of their time.


Zusammenfassung
The Arnauld family rose to prominence at the end of the sixteenth century by attaching themselves to King Louis XIV with absolute loyalty and obedience. Sedgwick's engaging history chronicles the Arnauld family's reaction to momentous political and religious developments and offers a unique perspective on a tumultuous period in French history.

Inhalt
Genealogy of the Arnauld family, 15th-18th centuries: introduction; the early generations; Angelique the reformer; the conversion of a family - the women; the reformation of a family - the solitaires; Robert Arnauld d'Andilly - the patriarch; Le Grand Arnauld and the origins of Jansenism; the Arnauld family during the Fronde; the confrontation; Pomponne - the rise and fall of a minster; toward the destruction of Port-Royal; the Marquis's children - Jansenists in spite of themselves; the Arnaulds in history.

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