216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book provides a "birds eye" view of social change in France during the "long seventeenth century" from 1589-1715. One of the most dynamic phases of French history, it covers the reigns of the first three Bourbon kings, Henri IV, Louis XIII, and Louis XIV. The author explores the upheavals in French society during this period through an examination of the bonds which tied various classes and... Read more
GENERAL EDITOR’S PREFACE ixPREFACE xiIN TRO D U CTIO N : SOCIAL SOLIDARITIES 11 FAMILIES AN D HOUSEH O LDS 6The instability o f families 9Family tension and strife 122 W O M EN AN D M EN 20Dependency and manipulation 22The battle o f the sexes 27Women, work and home 293 PLAGUE A ND PEASANTS 35Why was agriculture stagnant? 39How unchanging was rural life? 424 CITIES AND CHANGE 48Urban growth 50Causes and effects o f urban growth 54Urban growth and social change 605 THE NOBILITY 64The royal court 67The court, the king and the nobility 70The changing role o f the nobility 736 THE EARLY M O D ER N STATE 81The traditional interpretation 84The revisionist interpretation 85New political solidarities 917 THE C H U R C H 96Catholic reform 98The impact of Catholic Reform 103Religious dissent: the Protestants 106Religious dissent: the Jansenists 1118 THE MARGINS OF SOCIETY 116Freethinkers and rationalists 117Witches 122Poverty and crime 127C O N C LU SIO N : SOLIDARITIES AN D SOCIAL CHANGE 135APPENDIX 1 CHRONOLOGY OF EVENTS 142APPENDIX 2 GLOSSARY 145APPENDIX 3 A HISTORIOGRAPHICAL ESSAY 148MAPS 157NOTES 161INDEX
Biography
Sharon Kettering
' this is a masterly piece of compression, and a lively, provocative work which conveys very well the turbulence of seventeenth-century French history and historiography.'
English Historical Review
