Holy Tears, Holy Blood: Women, Catholicism, and the Culture of Suffering in France, 1840-1970

by Peggy Reeves Sanday and Richard D. E. Burton

Book Overview

In Holy Tears, Holy Blood, Richard D. E. Burton continues his investigation of Catholic France from Revolution to Liberation. From his focus in Blood in the City on public demonstrations of the cultural power of Catholicism, he now turns to more private rituals, those codes of conduct that shaped the interior lives of French Catholic women and determined their artistic and social presentation. "Here there is rather less blood, and considerably...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801442079
• ISBN13: 9780801442070
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher