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Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650–1815 Beales, Derek (University of Cambridge)
Prosperity and Plunder: European Catholic Monasteries in the Age of Revolution, 1650–1815
Beales, Derek (University of Cambridge)
This lavishly-illustrated book offers a unique, comparative description of the great monasteries of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Europe, their wealth, growth, life, and importance - and then explains their catastrophic decline and fall between 1750 and 1815 through reforming rulers, 'Enlightenment', and the French Revolution.
414 pages, 41 b/w illus. 10 colour illus. 4 maps
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 24, 2003 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521590907 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 414 |
| Dimensions | 211 × 262 × 31 mm · 1.11 kg |
| Language | English |