Introduction

Chapter 1 Camus and context

1. Early seventeenth-century France

2. Preaching and religious culture

2.1 Council of Trent

2.2 Bishops after Trent

2.3 Religious culture

3. Camus: family and biography

Chapter 2 Oral discourse and printed text

1. Camus’s publications

1.1 Fiction

1.2 The Diversités

1.3 Preaching

1.4 Other works

2. Camus as itinerant preacher

3. From oral discourse to printed text

3.1 Camus’s prefaces

3.2 Reception of oral discourses

3.3 Reception of printed sermons

4. Language, genre, style

4.1 Language

4.2 Genre

4.3 Style

Chapter 3 Culture and conversion

1. Conversion and confession

1.1 Sin and self-knowledge

1.2 Contrition

1.3 Confession of sins

2. Penitential works

2.1 Works

2.2 Prayer

2.3 Alms

2.4 Fasting

3. Examples of conversion

4. Clergy and conversion

4.1 Cathedral chapter

4.2 Ordination

4.3 Diocesan synod

5. Culture and conversion

Chapter 4 Feasting and fasting

1. Lent

1.1 Premières homélies quadragésimales

1.2 Belley, Lent 1616

2. Sunday homilies

3. Corpus Christi

4. Liturgical year

Chapter 5 Gender and the saints

1. Mary

1.1 Notre-Dame de Myans

1.2 Premières homélies mariales

2. Female holiness

3. Male holiness

Chapter 6 Loyola and Borromeo

1. Ignatius of Loyola

2. Charles Borromeo

Chapter 7 Politics and piety

1. Estates General

1.1 Three simonies

1.2 Three scourges

1.3 Three disorders

2. Monarchy

3. France

4. Paris

Chapter 8 Hearts and minds

1. An older Camus

2. Missions to New France

3. Missions within old France

Conclusion

Notes

References

Index

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