Devout and Defiant: How Pilgrims Shaped the Franco-German Borderlands in the Age of Revolutions

＂Blending religious with social and political history, Harrer offers a new history of pilgrimage by demonstrating that pilgrims’ activities in the French-German borderlands in the revolutionary decades around 1800 helped to define emerging state borders and significantly reshaped Catholicism over half a century before Lourdes＂-- Provided by publisher.

Kilian Harrer is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leibniz Institute of European History in Mainz, Germany.