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Author : James B. Collins
Release : 1995-09-28
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 248/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The State in Early Modern France by : James B. Collins
Download or read book The State in Early Modern France written by James B. Collins. This book was released on 1995-09-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new textbook examining the nature of the state and the monarchy in early modern France.
Author : William Beik
Release : 2009-05-14
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 091/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France by : William Beik
Download or read book A Social and Cultural History of Early Modern France written by William Beik. This book was released on 2009-05-14. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern society and identifies the cultural practices that defined the lives of people at all levels of society. Painting a vivid picture of the realities of everyday life, he reveals how society functioned and how the different classes interacted. In addition to chapters on nobles, peasants, city people, and the court, the book sheds new light on the Catholic church, the army, popular protest, the culture of violence, gendered relations, and sociability. This is a major new work that restores the ancien régime as a key epoch in its own right and not simply as the prelude to the coming Revolution.
Author : Jane McLeod
Release : 2011
Genre : Language Arts & Disciplines
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Book Rating : 687/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Licensing Loyalty by : Jane McLeod
Download or read book Licensing Loyalty written by Jane McLeod. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explores the evolution of the idea that the rise of print culture was a threat to the royal government of eighteenth-century France. Argues that French printers did much to foster this view as they negotiated a place in the expanding bureaucratic apparatus of the state"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Natalie Zemon Davis
Release : 1975
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 729/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Society and Culture in Early Modern France by : Natalie Zemon Davis
Download or read book Society and Culture in Early Modern France written by Natalie Zemon Davis. This book was released on 1975. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays, three of them previously unpublished, explore the competing claims of innovation and tradition among the lower orders in sixteenth-century France. The result is a wide-ranging view of the lives and values of men and women (artisans, tradesmen, the poor) who, because they left little or nothing in writing, have hitherto had little attention from scholars. The first three essays consider the social, vocational, and sexual context of the Protestant Reformation, its consequences for urban women, and the new attitudes toward poverty shared by Catholic humanists and Protestants alike in sixteenth-century Lyon. The next three essays describe the links between festive play and youth groups, domestic dissent, and political criticism in town and country, the festive reversal of sex roles and political order, and the ritualistic and dramatic structure of religious riots. The final two essays discuss the impact of printing on the quasi-literate, and the collecting of common proverbs and medical folklore by learned students of the "people" during the Ancien Régime. The book includes eight pages of illustrations.
Author : Jonathan Dewald
Release : 2015-06-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 462/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France by : Jonathan Dewald
Download or read book Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France written by Jonathan Dewald. This book was released on 2015-06-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family’s needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family—government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes how the Old Regime’s ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.
