TY - GEN N2 - This text examines how Catholic reformers envisioned and implemented changes to monastic life in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France. Scholars of France's Catholic Reformation have tended to focus on the movement's later stages and, taking a top-down approach, view it from the perspective of activist clerics seeking to impose a fixed idea of religious life. This study focuses instead on the movement's beginnings and explores the aims and tactics of proponents of reform from different but overlapping perspectives. The six case studies draw from three regions - Paris, Provence, and Languedoc. AB - This text examines how Catholic reformers envisioned and implemented changes to monastic life in late sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century France. Scholars of France's Catholic Reformation have tended to focus on the movement's later stages and, taking a top-down approach, view it from the perspective of activist clerics seeking to impose a fixed idea of religious life. This study focuses instead on the movement's beginnings and explores the aims and tactics of proponents of reform from different but overlapping perspectives. The six case studies draw from three regions - Paris, Provence, and Languedoc. T1 - Planting the cross :Catholic reform and renewal in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France / AU - Diefendorf, Barbara B., CN - Oxford Scholarship Online CN - BX1529 ID - 858995 KW - Church renewal KW - Church renewal SN - 9780190887056 TI - Planting the cross :Catholic reform and renewal in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century France / LK - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887025.001.0001 UR - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190887025.001.0001 ER -