Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815 by Derek Beales

Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650-1815

Derek Beales

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In the Catholic countries of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Europe, communities of monks and nuns were growing in number and wealth. They constructed vast buildings, dominated education, and played a large part in the practice and patro...

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