thesis

Spiritualité et pauvreté à Paris au XVIIème siècle

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Jan. 1, 1994

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Paris 4

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Abstract EN:

Les liens entre la spiritualite et les attitudes envers les pauvres sont etudies au moyen de sources aussi differentes que la liturgie, les textes des auteurs les plus edites ou les plus influents, des livrets quelquefois anonymes, des sermons, des reglements et des comptes d'hopitaux, des actes notaries de donation. Les sources sont traitees en privilegiant la constitution de series et la demarche comparative. Le plan adopte est chronologique. Il commence a la crise du catholicisme parisien du debut du siecle, et se poursuit par l'etude d'un cycle qui comprend d'abord l'edition des grands textes et les experiences individuelles, puis un temps d'action collective, le traumatisme de la fronde et un phase d'institutionalisation sous l'autorite du roi. L'ensemble presente une etude des relations entre spiritualite active et spiritualite contemplative, entre les composants de la societe pariseinne et les formes de l'assistance, entre l'evolution de la communication du message chretien sur la pauvrete et les situations concretes de pauvretes.

Abstract FR:

The relations between spirituality and the attitudes to the poor are studied with documents such as liturgy, texts of the most published authors, or the most influential, small books perhaps anonymous, sermons, rules and accounts of hospitals, titles of donation. The whole of these documents is used by constitution of series and in a comparative way. The outlime which was chosen is chronological. It begins with the crisis of the parisian catholicism at the begining of the xviith century and continues with the study of a cycle of active spirituality which includes first the edition of widespread texts and individual experiences, then a time of collective action, the traumatic events of the "fronde", and at last a phasis of institutionalisation under the king's authority. Finally, it is a study of the relations between active spirituality and contemplative spirituality, between the composition of the parisian society ant the forms of assistance, between evolution of the communication of the christian message about poverty and social forms of poverties.