Author : William Beik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 26,33 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521367820
This analysis of the provincial reality of absolutism argues that the relationship between the regional aristocracy and the crown was a key factor in influencing the traditional social system of seventeenth century France.
Author : William Beik
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 1997-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521575850
This lucid and wide-ranging survey is the first study in English to identify a distinctive urban phase in the history of the early modern crowd. Through close analysis of the behaviour of protesters and authorities in more than fifteen seventeenth-century French cities, William Beik explores a full spectrum of urban revolt from spontaneous individual actions to factional conflicts, culminating in the dramatic Ormee movement in Bordeaux. The 'culture of retribution' was a form of popular politics with roots in the religious wars and implications for future democratic movements. Vengeful crowds stoned and pillaged not only intrusive tax collectors but even their own magistrates, whom they viewed as civic traitors. By examining in depth this interaction of crowds and authorities, Professor Beik has provided a central contribution to the study of urban power structures and popular culture.
Author : Thomas F. Sheppard
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 16,97 MB
Release : 2019-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 142143427X
Originally published in 1971. In the 1970s, social historians of seventeenth-century France began examining the social changes in the ancien régime in an effort to reconstruct the events leading up to the French Revolution. Thomas Sheppard examines Lourmarin, a mainly Protestant village with a small textile industry. He seeks to answer a series of questions posed at the outset of the book: What was daily life like in an eighteenth-century French village? How was village government organized? To what extent did community leaders regulate village political life? What effect did the Revolution have on life in the village? Sheppard answers these questions with his archival work in Lourmarin. He concludes his work with an investigation of the effects of the Revolution on life in Lourmarin following 1789.
Author : David Stephan Lux
Publisher :
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 42,34 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN :
Author : Sharon Kettering
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 2024-10-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1040245382
The dual themes of this volume are the characteristics of patronage relationships and their political uses in early modern France. The first essays provide an overview of the scholarly literature and suggest that the obligatory reciprocity of the patron-client exchange was a defining characteristic. The third and fourth essays compare patronage relationships with kinship and friendship, while the following two focus on the patronage role of noblewomen. Professor Kettering then looks at the role of brokerage in state formation in early modern France, comparing this with other early modern societies. In the final section she explores the role of patronage in the religious wars of the late 16th century and in the civil war of the Fronde a half century later, and the ways in which it was affected by the changing lifestyles of the great nobles during the late 17th century.
Author : Bronwyn Reddan
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 19,45 MB
Release : 2020-12
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1496223934
Love is a key ingredient in the stereotypical fairy-tale ending in which everyone lives happily ever after. This romantic formula continues to influence contemporary ideas about love and marriage, but it ignores the history of love as an emotion that shapes and is shaped by hierarchies of power including gender, class, education, and social status. This interdisciplinary study questions the idealization of love as the ultimate happy ending by showing how the conteuses, the women writers who dominated the first French fairy-tale vogue in the 1690s, used the fairy-tale genre to critique the power dynamics of courtship and marriage. Their tales do not sit comfortably in the fairy-tale canon as they explore the good, the bad, and the ugly effects of love and marriage on the lives of their heroines. Bronwyn Reddan argues that the conteuses' scripts for love emphasize the importance of gender in determining the "right" way to love in seventeenth-century France. Their version of fairy-tale love is historical and contingent rather than universal and timeless. This conversation about love compels revision of the happily-ever-after narrative and offers incisive commentary on the gendered scripts for the performance of love in courtship and marriage in seventeenth-century France.
Author : Sharon Kettering
Publisher : New York : Oxford University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Decentralization in government
ISBN : 0195036735
A bold new study of politics and power in 17th-century France, this book argues that the French Crown extended its control over the provinces and laid the foundations for a centralized state by removing patronage power from the provincial governors and putting it instead in the hands of newly-created provincial power brokers--regional notables who cooperated with the Paris ministers in exchange for their patronage.
Author : Cécile Hugon
Publisher :
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 24,94 MB
Release : 1911
Category : France
ISBN :
Author : Jonathan Dewald
Publisher :
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,71 MB
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520078376
"No other work covers the subject that Dewald presents. . . . A learned tour de force."--Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins University "No other work covers the subject that Dewald presents. . . . A learned tour de force."--Orest Ranum, Johns Hopkins University
Author : Rochelle Ziskin
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 37,71 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Art
ISBN : 0271037857
"Explores the role of private art collections in the cultural, social, and political life of early eighteenth-century Paris. Examines how two principal groups of collectors, each associated with a different political faction, amassed different types of treasures and used them to establish social identities and compete for distinction"--Provided by publisher.
