Graduate Student, History
Thesis Title: The Diversity of Vocations: Choosing a State of Life in Early Modern France
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Brad S. Gregory
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About
I specialize in early modern Europe, especially the Reformations and seventeenth-century religious culture, and my dissertation in progress focuses on the choice of a state of life and vocational discernment, as they were understood in seventeenth-century France. In particular, I look at how young people were taught--in catechisms, sermons, devotional treatises, and the like--to discern God's will and choose between marriage, the religious life, and (for men) the priesthood, all of which were understood as callings from God. Using biographies, records of religious orders' novitiates, and court cases from the Paris diocesan tribunal, I examine these choices in practice.
Contact Information
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