Lynn Hunt’s Politics, Culture, and Class in the French Revolution

In her work Politics, Culture and Class in the French Revolution, Lynn Hunt examined the transformation of political culture in France during the last decades of the eighteenth century. In Part I of her book, Hunt argued that the origin and legacy of the French Revolution are fundamentally political because the failed political [...]

Marian Apparitions and Popular Catholicism in Nineteenth-Century Europe

During the nineteenth-century the philosophy of the Enlightenment introduced new concepts  that challenged traditional European thinking. The regicide and Terror of the French Revolution profoundly threatened the position of elites throughout Europe, and the republican ideology and secularization institutionalized by the Revolution undermined the authority of both the aristocracy and the Catholic Church. [...]