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Blasphemy : impious speech in the West from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century
- Title
- Blasphemy : impious speech in the West from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century / Alain Cabantous ; translated by Eric Rauth.
- Author
- Cabantous, Alain.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2002], ©2002.
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- Description
- x, 288 pages; 24 cm.
- Series Statement
- European perspectives
- Uniform Title
- Histoire du blasphème en Occident. English
- European perspectives.
- Alternative Title
- Histoire du blasphème en Occident.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [265]-274) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Language and the Sacred -- Pt. 1. Ecclesiastic Time: A Chronic Sin. 1. A Sin's Meaning. 2. Blasphemy and the Counter-Reformation. 3. God's Holy Church Against Blasphemy -- Pt. 2. The Princes' Time: Powers of State Against Blasphemy. 4. Kings Against Blasphemy. 5. Sounding the Call: Municipalities, the Bourgeois, and the Seigniories -- Pt. 3. Human Time: Blasphemy's Social Milieus. 6. Emblematic Swearers. 7. The Other Reality -- Pt. 4. Cleric versus Philosophe: Blasphemy and Public Space. 8. A Loosening Grip. 9. Magistrate, Theologian, and the Ways of Justice -- Pt. 5. An Era of Transition: Blasphemy on Trial. 10. Sacredness Elsewhere? 11. Speech and Expiation -- Pt. 6. The Age of Blasphemy: Meanings of a Word. 12. The Telltale Speech of Sin? 13. What Blasphemy Said About Society. Conclusion: Blasphemy's Comeback.
- ISBN
- 0231118767 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001042250
- OCLC
- ocm47254250
- SCSB-4232040
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries