The aim of this multidisciplinary research project on a European scale is to use a comparative approach to study how, in the Europe of the Counter-Reformation, music was used to construct a genuine sound image of the prince's religion, how this was developed and articulated in the political and symbolic architecture of a power that was both temporal and spiritual, and how religious music was invented, produced and evolved to meet this objective.

The studies produced as part of this project were recently published in the Mélanges de l'École Française de Rome collection: Italie et Méditerranée moderne et contemporaine.

Musiques de la foi / Musiques du pouvoir. Construction et affirmation des identités politiques, religieuses et culturelles des cours catholiques européennes (1648-1748), edited by Thierry Favier and Thomas Leconte.