232 Pages
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Routledge
232 Pages
by
Routledge
240 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in 2006. Feudalism is normally associated with eighteenth-century France only in its more bizarre survivals, as in The Marriage of Figaro , when his seigneur claims the rights to spend the first night with the bride. If feudalism menat no more in the eighteenth century than a few quaint customs that could tickle an audence at the C omedie Francaise , why did French writers attack... Read more
Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 ‘Feudalism’ in Eighteenth-century French Historiography; Chapter 3 ‘Feudalism’ in Juristic Thought; Chapter 4 The Nobility and Business; Chapter 5 Humanitarian Objections to ‘Feudalism’; Chapter 6 The Inutility of ‘Feudalism’; Chapter 7 Epilogue; BIBLIOGRAPHY; Index;
Biography
J.Q.C. Mackrell
