1st Edition
The Godefroy Family of Scholars, 1580–1880 The Genealogy of Erudition in France
By Caroline R. Sherman
Copyright 2026
244 Pages
1 B/W Illustrations
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Routledge
The Godefroy Family of Scholars, 1580–1880 gives an inside look at the workings of a scholarly dynasty: the roles played by wives, its training methods for children, their habits of correspondence, and the struggles that broke out when the family fought about the direction of their work. Beginning with their influential editions of the Corpus Iuris Civilis and the Codex Theodosianus , the... Read more
Introduction
1. The Work of Generations
2. Utility: Humanist, Familial, and Political
3. Standing on Ceremony
4. Inheritance Rights
5. Security and its Discontents
6. The Accidental Antiquarian
7. The Cult of Motherhood in an Intellectual Family
Biography
Caroline R. Sherman is Associate Professor of History and Vice Provost for Academic Administration and Dean of Graduate Studies at the Catholic University of America. She is the author of The Uses of the Dead: The Early Modern Development of Cy-Près Doctrine (2018).
