Thèse de doctorat en HISTOIRE
Sous la direction de Gérard Cholvy.
Soutenue en 1986
à Montpellier 3 .
Diocese de rodez : evolution temps et espace, 1801-1870tableau des croyances et mentalites. Epoque concordatoire, naissance de la petite eglise (enfarines a villecomtal). Avec ramond de lalande, retablissement de l'eveche de rodez, alors rattache a celui de cahors. Analyse chronologique, thematique de la vie quotidienne religieuse, sociale sous chaque episcopat : etude numerique du clerge, vocations (sacerdotales, religieuses), role des clercs (enseignement, confreries, associations). Institution diocesaine est saisie a travers ses manifestations : fondations de succursales, etablissements scolaires, rapports eglise-etat, exteriorisation du sentiment religieux ( pelerinages, mariaux) et saints guerisseurs, frequentation dominicale, pascale, etat moral, amenagement des lieux de culte). Donnees publiques et privees (enquetes pastorales et decanales). Fidelite ou conformisme. Continuite et attachement. Unite a l'exclusion de regions industrielles. Rouergue, bastion chretiente.
Religious life in the diocese of rodez from 1801 to 1870
The diocese of rodez: development in time and place, 1801-1870 - chart of beliefs and mental attitudes. Concordatory period, birth of the petite eglise (enfarines at villecomtal). With ramond de lalande, restoration of the rodez bishopric, at that time affiliated to cahors. Chronological thematic analysis of the everyday social religious life during each episcopacy : numerical study of the clergy vocations (sacerdotal, religious), role of the schoclars (education, brotherhood, societies). Understanding diocesan institution through demonstrations : creation of branches, educational institutions, church-state relationship, exteriorization of the religious feeling (pilgrimages, marian cult and holy healers, easter and sunday attendance, moral condition, planning of places of worship). Public and private data (pastoral and decanal studies). Loyalty or conformity.