| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 111.5 | The History Cooperative

Bruno Restif. La révolution des paroisses: Culture paroissiale et réforme catholique en Haute-Bretagne aux XVI^e et XVII^e siècles. (Histoire.) Rennes: Presses Universitaires de Rennes. 2006. Pp. 415. €24.00.
Bruno Restif set himself the daunting task of studying the application of the Catholic Reformation at the parish level in three dioceses (Rennes, Dol, and St. Malo) that together constituted most of Upper Brittany before the French Revolution. His great advantage and challenge was that the archives of the 469 parish and parish equivalents involved became available for study when they were deposited in the archives of the dépertment of Ille-et-Vilaine in the 1990s.	1
The words "revised doctoral dissertation" are often a warning of tedium to come. Not so in this case. Restif's research extends from the mid-fifteenth century, when parish financial accounts began to be recorded in registers, to the mid-eighteenth century. He concentrates on the years between the first decade of the seventeenth century and the first third of the eighteenth century. His purposes are to study religious change from parishioners upward, rather than from bishops downward, and to contribute to the rejection of the stereotype of passive early modern peasants upon whom an active and enlightened elite imposed its ideas. Restif shows that acculturation took place, but on a two-way street.	. . .

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