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

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cubitt, Geoffrey
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1993.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of 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.