Sacred and Secular Agency in Early Modern France

Sanja Perovic is Lecturer in the French Department, King's College London, UK.

• Introduction Sanja Perovic \ 1. Robert R. Palmer's Catholics and Unbelievers in Eighteenth-Century France: An Overdue Tribute Dale K. Van Kley \ 2. The Regency of Catherine de Medici: Political Reason during the Wars of Religion Denis Crouzet \ 3. Religion and Representation in Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron Ellen McClure \ 4. The Gallican Mines: Martine de Bertereau's Restitution de Pluton, Astrology, Providence and Empire during the reign of Louis XIII Erik Thomson \ 5. Resacralizing the Self: Mysticism, Materialism, and Personhood in Eighteenth-Century France Charly Coleman \ 6. Permutations of the Theological-Political Analogy: Political Voluntarism, 'Transfer,' and Secularization Stephanie Frank \ 7. The French Revolution as World Religion Sanja Perovic \ 8. The Secularization of Execution: Heresy, Sacrifice and the Inquisition from Montesquieu to Maistre Francesco Manzini \ 9. Religion and the French Revolution; or, The Politics of Incarnation Craig Carson \ Postface: The Signature that Remains Sophie Fuggle \ Bibliography \ Index

"This is an exciting and importantbook which overturns a series of platitudes about both earlymodernity and France today. It marks a timely intervention in the field ofFrench studies and more broadly in historical debates about secularization.Perovic's collection makes an invigorating and illuminating contributionto early modern studies, but more importantly it proposes that we think aboutthe relation between early and late modernity in a new way."