1st Edition
The Monarchy, the Estates and the Aristocracy in Renaissance France
By J. Russell Major
Copyright 1988
300 Pages
by
Routledge
300 Pages
by
Routledge
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Professor Major's aim in these articles has been to stimulate new assessments of the political, constitutional and social history of France in the 15th - 17th centuries. The first group examines the nature of the Renaissance monarchy, its strengths and its weaknesses and lack of effective controls. The next group explores the issue of why the Estates General, and some of the provincial estates,... Read more
Contents: Introduction; The Renaissance monarchy; The Renaissance monarchy as seen by Erasmus, More, Seyssel and Machiavelli; Popular initiative in Renaissance France; The third estate in the Estates general of Pontoise, 1561; The assembly at Paris, summer 1575; ; The electoral procedure for the Estates general and its social implications, 1438-1651; The payment of the deputies to the national assemblies, 1484-1627; The loss of royal initiative and the decay of the Estates general, 1421-1615; Henry IV and Guyenne: French representative assemblies; The crown and the aristocracy; Noble income, inflation, and the Wars of religion; Bastard feudalism and the kiss; The revolt of 1620: ties of fidelity; Index.
Biography
J. Russell Major
