Transregional Interactions between Jansenists, other Catholics, and Protestants in Seventeenth Century Northern Europe

This paper discusses the theological and cultural exchanges between Catholic clergy and theologians, and specifically between the neo-Augustinian-minded, the so-called “Jansenists”, and other Catholics, in Northern Europe during the seventeenth century. It also explores the Jansenists’ encounters and theological engagement with Protestantism. In this period, interaction and transfer between French Jansenist Catholics and other Catholics in other countries took place in various ways: 1. Via traveling and migration: French theologians and clergy returned home from their travels with reports about the situation of Catholicism and Protestantism in other countries; moreover, in the second half of the 17th century, French Jansenists fled to the northern Netherlands. 2. Via networking: it is little known that for a brief period on the North Sea island of Nordstrand, adherents to Port-Royal were buying land, and clergy of the Flemish Oratory provided pastoral care for the island’s Catholics. This project was not successful, but at the end it strengthened the network between French “Jansenists” and Catholics in the Dutch Republic. 3. Via publications by leading Jansenists and their counterparts. In this paper, the focus is on the view of Protestantism held by Jansenist writers.

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Errors in pagination: nos. 201, 265-266, and 414 numbered respectively 191, 267-268, and 408; nos. 276-277 omitted.

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Includes index.

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"Ouvrage couronné par l'Académie française."

I giansenisti nella conversione della famiglia Manzoni.

Bibliographical footnotes.

Mémoires de Godefroi Hermant sur l'histoire ecclésiastique du XVIIe siècle (1630-1663) Publiés pour la première fois sur le manuscrit autographe et sur les anciennes copies authentiques,

Bibliographical footnotes.

Jacques de Sainte-Beuve, docteur de Sorbonne et professeur royal : étude d'histoire privée contenant des détails inconnus sur le premier Jansénisme.

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Bibliographical references included in footnotes.

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Concludes with extracts of Jansenist works (pt. 2, p. 140-240).

Explication des qualitez ou des caractéres que S. Paul donne a la charité.

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Lettres provinciales,

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