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Captives and Corsairs
Captives and Corsairs uncovers a forgotten story in the history of relations between the West and Islam: three centuries of Muslim corsair raids on French ships and shores and the resulting captivity of tens of thousands of French subjects and citizens in North Africa. Through an analysis of archival materials, writings, and images produced by contemporaries, the book fundamentally revises our picture of France's emergence as a nation and a colonial power, presenting the Mediterranean as an essential vantage point for studying the rise of France. It reveals how efforts to liberate slaves from North Africa shaped France's perceptions of the Muslim world and of their own "Frenchness". From around 1550 to 1830, freeing these captives evolved from an expression of Christian charity to a method of state building and, eventually, to a rationale for imperial expansion. Captives and Corsairs thus advances new arguments about the fluid nature of slavery and firmly links captive redemption to state formation—and in turn to the still vital ideology of liberatory conquest.
What Makes the Nobility Noble?
In this volume on the history of the European nobility in the modern era, the boundary between the early modern and 'real' modern periods around 1800 is deliberately crossed. By centring on the nobility, the authors undertake a new exploration of the continuities and ruptures in European history. In the three thematic areas of law, politics and aesthetics, the noble knights' utilisation of the early modern courts in the Holy Roman Empire is considered, along with the social and political identity of the English nobility in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributions make clear the virtuosity with which the nobility met the challenges of their time, and how they managed to be simultaneously 'contemporary' and retain a specific aristocratic character.
Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France
In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family’s needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family—government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes how the Old Regime’s ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.
De la PrŽvalaye au Restmeur - Lettres de Madame de Brilhac ˆ sa fille
Ce livre reproduit environ 75 lettres écrites par une aristocrate vivant à Rennes sous Louis 15, intéressantes pour leur écriture et la multitude d'informations qu'elle contient touchant la vie politique autour du parlement de Bretagne, ou les soucis personnels de la scriptrice. Un index recense toutes ces données dans l'intérêt des historiens.
Mémoire de Combourg
Combourg : un nom connu au-delà de nos frontières. C'est, bien sûr, principalement dû à Chateaubriand, qui lui a consacré quelques pages de souvenirs. On y vient pour lui, pour visiter le château qui abrita une partie de sa jeunesse, et on découvre une petite cité pleine de caractère, avec un passé et une vie fort captivants. Monique Leray, originaire de la commune, dans un but d'aider les "chercheurs généalogistes" a retracé son histoire et la vie des habitants de la petite ville, grâce à un long travail de recherche en archives et d'enquêtes minutieuses. L'auteur, ne voulant pas répéter les travaux déjà réalisés sur Combourg, en a résumé son histoire, celle de son château et des seigneurs et châtelains, et s'est penchée sur la vie locale, en apportant d'importants développements sur la vie municipale et paroissiale, l'enseignement, les services publics et les loisirs. Nombre de lecteurs combourgeois pourront retrouver trace de leurs souvenirs d'antan et, les autres, de nombreux noms trouvés dans leurs recherches, qu'ils pourront ainsi situer dans le cadre qui fut le leur.
Brocéliande Au-delà des apparences Tome II
Broceliande, cette foret mythique de la Quete du saint Graal, sillonnee en tous sens par les chevaliers du roi Arthur, comment et pourquoi s'est-elle implantee en foret de Paimpont ? De la Fontaine de Barenton au Val sans Retour, en passant par le Jardin des Moines, c'est le cheminement que l'auteur vous invite a continuer a suivre en sa compagnie, bien au-dela des apparences et des idees recues
