Church, society and religious change in France, 1580-1730

From dioceses to parishes: the geography of the French church

Wealth into benefices

Clerics and clergy: the world of the seculars

The monastic orders: adjustment and survival

From mendicants to congregations

A silent revolution: Women as regulars

Bishops: adaptation and action

Remaking the secular clergy

The triumph of the parish?

Saints and shrines

Sacraments and sinners

Religion taught and learned

The forms and uses of spirituality

The many faces of the confraternities

Devots: the pious and the militant

Jansenists: dissidents but also militants.