"This wide-ranging and ambitious anthology fills a yawning gap in the history of Catholicism in the early modern period, taking the reader on a lively tour through the rich and varied landscape of the minority movement known (for better or worse) as Jansenism. The thirty-one primary texts, many made available for the first time in English translation, are so many destinations in an itinerary that starts with the first articulations of Jansenist theology in the mid-seventeenth century and ends in the early nineteenth century with Abbé Grégoire's nostalgic recollections of the ruins of the convent of Port-Royal. In between, readers are treated to a sampling of papal bulls, theological treatises, miracle stories, polemical pamphlets, synodal decrees, biblical commentaries, poetry, letters, and memoir that, taken together, return flesh and blood to movement all too often misunderstood or maligned in the historiography of Catholicism. This anthology, contextualized by a substantial, engaging, and generously-annotated introduction, makes a crucial intervention in the field, adding immeasurably to what scholars and students can know about the history of Jansenism and its often overlooked role in shaping today's global Catholic Church."?Mary Dunn, Saint Louis University "If you wish to get beyond the caricatures of Jansenism and see its complexities and dark lusters, this wonderful anthology is exactly what you need."?Kevin Hart, The Divinity School, Duke University "This necessary anthology combines scrupulous historical framing with an unprecedented array of multilingual primary texts in English translation by leading female as well as male voices in 200-years of transnational Jansenist polemics. The intricate portrait of personal, intellectual, doctrinal, spiritual, and political interrelationships and enmities that emerges will transform historiographical debate about Jansenism and the post-Tridentine Catholic Church. The opening 'Introduction to Jansenism,' by Blanchard and Yoder, alone is worth the price of the book.

An enthralling genealogy of the still pervasively misunderstood, if not maligned, religious reform movement, it is far-reaching and incisive, witty and deeply serious about supplanting convulsive caricatures of Jansenists as the 'gloomiest of moralists, sanctimonious predestinarians, perfidious revolutionaries,' with what they actually said and did."?Rebecca Messbarger, Washington Univeristy in Saint Louis.