UNIGENITUS, JESUITS, AND THE FRENCH ENLIGHTENMENT
A bilingual conversation organized by The Jesuit History Research Group
The French Enlightenment was marked by bitter polemics
about the role of Church and State. Instead of uniting the
Church, the Papal Bull Unigenitus (1713) cemented divisions
between the Jansenists, the Jesuits, the Papacy, the Gallican
Church, the Crown, and the Parlements. Positions and
alliances shifted constantly, and the consequences played
out in the political and intellectual circles that shaped the
French Enlightenment.
Our guests have both recently published books on these
issues. Catherine Maire (CNRS, Paris) published L'Église dans
l'État. Politique et Religion dans la France des Lumières and
Jeffrey Burson (Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, GA)
published The Culture of Enlightening: Abbé Claude Yvon
and the Entangled Emergence of the Enlightenment (both in
2019).
The conversation will be bilingual and moderated by
Andreas Motsch, JHRG, Toronto.
May 14, 2021, 1-3 pm EDT (zoom event)
R.S.V.P.
Please register in advance for this meeting:
https://utoronto.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYkd-6qrzkiHdekcA[1]uHJZdt11GZ8_ctHld
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information
about joining the meeting.
For further information, please contact Professor Andreas Motsch at
motsch@chass.utoronto.ca
