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French Missionaries in Acadia/Nova Scotia, 1654-1755

On a Risky Edge

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Authors:
  1. Matteo Binasco

    1. University of Siena, POZZOLO FORMIGARO, Italy

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  • Offers the first detailed assessment of the activities by the French missionaries
  • Investigates how and to which extent the French missionaries operated amid the Indigenous people of Acadia/Nova Scotia
  • Evaluates how the missionary pattern experienced a series of seminal changes

Part of the book series: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World (CTAW)

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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 1-22

  3. The State of the Missionary Church in Acadia in the Years 1654–1669

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 23-47

  4. The Last Years of Preaching, 1670–1690

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 49-77

  5. The Rise of Tension, 1690–1710

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 79-98

  6. A Difficult Cohabitation. The French Missionaries and the British Conquest of Acadia/Nova Scotia

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 99-122

  7. Coping with the Impossible: The French Missionaries and the Anglo/French Conflict over Acadia/Nova Scotia

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 123-149

  8. The End of an Era

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 151-181

  9. Conclusion

    • Matteo Binasco
    Pages 183-186

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 187-230
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About this book

This book investigates and assesses how and to what extent the French Catholic missionaries carried out their evangelical activity amid the natives of Acadia/Nova Scotia from the mid-seventeenth century until 1755, the year of the Great Deportation of the Acadians. It provides a new understanding of the role played by the French missionaries in the most peripheral and less populated area of Canada during the colonial period. The decision to focus on this period is dictated by the need to investigate how and to which extent the French missionaries sought to carry out their activity within a contested territory which was exposed to the pressures coming out of both French and British imperial interests.

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“Matteo Binasco’s French Missionaries in Acadia/Nova Scotia, 1654–1755: On a Risky Edge is a much-needed, comprehensive, English-language overview of French missionary endeavour … . The book also offers a detailed account of the heated interplay between the Recollets, the Diocese of Quebec, and other religious congregations … . Each chapter is supported by hundreds of endnotes, which is a testimony to the historical master detective at work here.” (Mark G. McGowan, Church History, Vol. 92 (3), September, 2023)

Authors and Affiliations

  • University of Siena, POZZOLO FORMIGARO, Italy

    Matteo Binasco

About the author

Matteo Binasco is Adjunct Professor at the Foreigners’ University of Siena, Italy. He is also principal investigator in the project ‘I+D+I en el marco del Programa Operativo FEDER Andalucía 2014-2020’ at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Seville. His previous monograph with Palgrave Macmillan, Making, Breaking and Remaking the Irish Missionary Network: Ireland, Rome and the West Indies in the Seventeenth Century, was published in 2020. 

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: French Missionaries in Acadia/Nova Scotia, 1654-1755

  • Book Subtitle: On a Risky Edge

  • Authors: Matteo Binasco

  • Series Title: Christianities in the Trans-Atlantic World

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10503-6

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: History, History (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10502-9Published: 12 October 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-10505-0Published: 13 October 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-10503-6Published: 11 October 2022

  • Series ISSN: 2634-5838

  • Series E-ISSN: 2634-5846

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 230

  • Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: History of the Americas, European History, Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Religion

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