Description: This session addresses the question of whether, and how, attention to religion enriches our understanding of seventeenth-century French literature and culture. Organized around a page of text that each participant will circulate beforehand, this interdisciplinary panel invites reflection on religion—defined here not only as religious texts but also as practices—as a profoundly influential, yet too often neglected, source of dynamic complexity in the period.

Presider

Ellen McClure, U of Illinois, Chicago

Speakers

Dalia Judovitz, Emory U

Hall Bjornstad, Indiana U, Bloomington

Flynn Cratty, Yale U

Richard Reinhardt, U of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Joy Palacios, U of Calgary