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Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France
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.
The Monarchy, the Estates and the Aristocracy in Renaissance France
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, failed to develop in France, in marked contrast to the triumph of representative government in England. Finally, the author turns to the question of how the nobles succeeded in remaining the dominant social class. On the one hand, he traces the evolution of a patron-client relationship which compensated for the decay of the feudal ties of the Middle Ages; on the other, he challenges assumptions made of a decline in nobles' incomes, and contends that, so long as they held on to their lands and could escape the depredations of war, for most of the period they actually benefited from a marked increase in real income.
Nuns Without Cloister
Nuns Without Cloister explores one of the first and most innovative among the non-cloistered women's congregations established after the Council of Trent. Under the aegis of a Jesuit missionary, the first Sisters of St. Joseph envisioned a direct role for religious women in the secular society of mid-seventeenth century France and quietly broke the ecclesiastical and cultural barriers that opposed it. This book opens perspectives on the sisters' success through a politics of discretion and the introduction of creative variety in their lives in country parishes or in the urban orphanages, hospitals, and reformatories for fallen women of the ancien r gime. Vacher's methodology, comparing the c...
From Renaissance Monarchy to Absolute Monarchy
Evans (classics, U. of British Columbia) examines the history of the great emperor, whose reign marks the transition between Late Antiquity and the Byzantine period, including what is presently known about his life, the social structure of the empire, its relations with its neighbors, and naturally, its wars. It also examines theological issues, which split the empire and left deep divisions after Justinian's death. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
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Le vicomte Assailli
La seigneurie "démocratisée" aurait-elle été, à l'égal de l'appropriation foncière, une des voies bourgeoises essentielles vers le profit ? La Révolution a-t-elle eu lieu non parce que les tensions sociales étaient devenues insupportables mais, au contraire, parce qu'elles s'étaient réduites ? Le paradoxe n'est-il pas un des caractères des temps de mutation ? Le vicomte assailli est une contribution à la connaissance de l'économie et de la société de la France d'Ancien Régime, particulièrement en Languedoc des montagnes. Le passage à la modernité est abordé selon trois axes d'investigation : l'un, d'ordre économique, un autre s'attachant à la régulation sociale et aux rapports des individus aux groupes et des groupes entre eux, enfin l'étude de la permanence et des mutations d'une structure, la seigneurie, successivement investie et mise à profit par les différentes catégories de notables dans leurs stratégies de domination. « On trouve, dans ce livre - soutenue par une plume rigoureuse, alerte, souvent spirituelle - une pensée solide à laquelle on adhère » (Pierre Goubert).
