- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: <i>John McManners, Man and Historian</i>
- 1 <i>The Science of Sin: Jacques de Sainte-Beuve and his</i> Cas de conscience
- 2 John Dury and the Practice of Irenicism
- 3 An Irish Opportunist in Paris: Dr Piers de Girardin
- 4 ‘Il fallut même réveiller les Suisses’: Aspects of Private Religious Practice in a Public Setting in Eighteenth-Century Versailles
- 5 A Quest for Peace in the Church: The Abbé A. J. C. Clément's Journey to Rome of 1758
- 6 Secular Simony: The Clergy and the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France
- 7 ‘Superstitious enemies of the flesh’? The Variety of Benedictine Responses to the Enlightenment
- 8 Joseph II and the Monasteries of Austria and Hungary
- 9 A ‘lay divine’: Burke, Christianity, and the Preservation of the British State, 1790–1797
- 10 The Kirk, the French Revolution, and the Burden of Scottish Whiggery
- 11 Religion according to Napoleon: The Limitations of Pragmatism
- 12 Religious Reactions in Post-Revolutionary French Literature: Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staël, Joseph de Maistre
- 13 A Not Exclusive Truth: An Early Nineteenth-Century Pastoral Theology and Erasmus
- 14 The Office of Chief Rabbi: A Very English Institution
- 15 ‘A footing beyond Time’: Church, State, and the Individual in Carlyle's Historical Writing
- 16 LʼÉglise, lʼÉtat et lʼUniversité: Les Facultés de Théologie Catholique en France au XIX<sup>e</sup> siècle
- 17 Colonial Church Establishment in the Aftermath of the Colenso Controversy
- 18 The British Ambassador and the Funeral of Pope Pius IX
- 19 Eastern Horizons: Anglicans and the Oriental Orthodox Churches
- Epilogue: The Changing Role of the Ecclesiastical Historian
- Bibliography of John McManners's Works
- Index
Joseph II and the Monasteries of Austria and Hungary
Joseph II and the Monasteries of Austria and Hungary
- Chapter:
- (p.161) 8 Joseph II and the Monasteries of Austria and Hungary
- Source:
- Religious Change in Europe 1650–1914
- Author(s):
Derek Beales
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
While it is true that the policy of the emperor Joseph II, as ruler of the Austrian Monarchy in the 1780s, has often been described, certain of its aspects have still not been adequately covered. This chapter considers some of them, using new or little-known material from the Vatican, Austrian, and Hungarian archives. It focuses on the following issues: the relationship between Maria Theresa's monastic policy and her son's; the involvement of monasteries in parochial work; hitherto unsuspected opposition to Joseph's policy at the highest level of the bureaucracy; and the impact of his legislation in Hungary, which was significantly different from its effect in Austria itself. The author attempts to open up some neglected themes and to show how much remains to be found out.
Keywords: Joseph II, monastery, bureaucracy, Austria, Hungary, Maria Theresa
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- Title Pages
- Illustration
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: <i>John McManners, Man and Historian</i>
- 1 <i>The Science of Sin: Jacques de Sainte-Beuve and his</i> Cas de conscience
- 2 John Dury and the Practice of Irenicism
- 3 An Irish Opportunist in Paris: Dr Piers de Girardin
- 4 ‘Il fallut même réveiller les Suisses’: Aspects of Private Religious Practice in a Public Setting in Eighteenth-Century Versailles
- 5 A Quest for Peace in the Church: The Abbé A. J. C. Clément's Journey to Rome of 1758
- 6 Secular Simony: The Clergy and the Sale of Offices in Eighteenth-Century France
- 7 ‘Superstitious enemies of the flesh’? The Variety of Benedictine Responses to the Enlightenment
- 8 Joseph II and the Monasteries of Austria and Hungary
- 9 A ‘lay divine’: Burke, Christianity, and the Preservation of the British State, 1790–1797
- 10 The Kirk, the French Revolution, and the Burden of Scottish Whiggery
- 11 Religion according to Napoleon: The Limitations of Pragmatism
- 12 Religious Reactions in Post-Revolutionary French Literature: Chateaubriand, Constant, Mme de Staël, Joseph de Maistre
- 13 A Not Exclusive Truth: An Early Nineteenth-Century Pastoral Theology and Erasmus
- 14 The Office of Chief Rabbi: A Very English Institution
- 15 ‘A footing beyond Time’: Church, State, and the Individual in Carlyle's Historical Writing
- 16 LʼÉglise, lʼÉtat et lʼUniversité: Les Facultés de Théologie Catholique en France au XIX<sup>e</sup> siècle
- 17 Colonial Church Establishment in the Aftermath of the Colenso Controversy
- 18 The British Ambassador and the Funeral of Pope Pius IX
- 19 Eastern Horizons: Anglicans and the Oriental Orthodox Churches
- Epilogue: The Changing Role of the Ecclesiastical Historian
- Bibliography of John McManners's Works
- Index
