Catholic Particularity in Seventeenth-Century French Writing

''le christianisme est étrange'' - Pascal, PenséesPascal''s assertion that ''Christianity is strange'', provides the theme for Richard Parish''s exploration of Catholic particularity, as it was expressed in the writing of the French seventeenth century. This was a period of quite exceptional fertility in a range of genres: apologetics, sermons, devotional manuals, catechisms, martyr tragedies, lyr...