![]() ![]() Finally, during James II’s reign two Catholic editions were openly published, one in England and the other in Scotland. Two of the three reformed editions were published in England, evidence of the Introduction’s widespread readership and its importance to seventeenth-century English devotion. ![]() Francis addresses Philothea the soul living in the world introducing her to the paths of devotion, by which he. Most of the seventeenth-century English editions were published abroad in Douai, Paris, St Omer, and Rouen, places that were home to many English and Scottish exiled communities, both lay and religious. In An Introduction to the Devout Life, St. ![]() It is curious that a post-Reformation, Tridentine Catholic work, written by a French bishop dedicated to converting Protestant ‘Heretiques,’ would appeal to both Catholics and Protestants alike. This was the central insight of Saint Francis de Sales, a 16th-century priest whose Introduction to the Devout Life has not gone out of print in almost four centuries. ![]() Collectively, the English-language editions in this century include two translations and, perhaps most interestingly, several reformed editions. Devout life does not require withdrawal from the world. St Francis de Sales’ devotional manual, An Introduction to a Devout Life (1609), had a complex but fascinating reception history in seventeenth-century England and Scotland. ![]()
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