Gender, Rumor, and Religious Polemic in Louis XIV's France: Paule Payen de Lionne's Intervention in the Chinese Rites Controversy.
The Chinese Rites Controversy was one of the most contentious issues in the French church at the beginning of the eighteenth century. Nourished with rumors from China, it was predominantly a debate among men, with the exception of an extraordinary intervention by a woman, Paule Payen de Lionne, in 1...
| Publicado en: | French Historical Studies Vol. 47; no. 4; pp. 611 - 639 |
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