Prosperity and Plunder
Derek (University of Cambridge) Beales
Cambridge University Press, 2003
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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.
- ISBN-13
- 9780521590907
- ISBN-10
- 0521590906
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Year
- 2003
- Publication date
- 2003-07-24
- Pages
- 414
- Dimensions
- 211x262x31
- Weight
- 1114