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The Aristocracy in the County of Champagne, 1100-1300
Theodore Evergates provides the first systematic analysis of the aristocracy in the county of Champagne under the independent counts. He argues that three factors—the rise of the comital state, fiefholding, and the conjugal family—were critical to shaping a loose assortment of baronial and knightly families into an aristocracy with shared customs, institutions, and identity. Evergates mines the rich, varied, and in some respects unique collection of source materials from Champagne to provide a dynamic picture of a medieval aristocracy and its evolving symbiotic relationship with the counts. Count Henry the Liberal (1152-81) began the process of transforming a quasi-independent baronage a...
Journal d'un maitre d'école d'Ile-de-France 1771-1792
Maître d'école et clerc paroissial de Silly-en-Multien, village de l'ancien diocèse de Meaux, présentement Silly-le-long dans l'Oise, Pierre Louis Nicolas Delahaye (1745-1805) a laissé un passionnant journal couvrant la période 1771-1792. L'"état des baptèmes, mariages et sépultures de la paroisse", agrémenté d'un livre de comptes, devenu au fil des années une véritable chronique de la vie de la communauté, offre une grande richesse documentaire sur la démographie, l'économie, la société, la vie religieuse, la culture matérielle et le quotidien d'une paroisse rurale en pays de grande culture au nord de Paris. L'atonie politique de l'Ancien Régime finissant, marqué par la...
Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution
Common Land, Wine and the French Revolution demonstrates the centrality of the Revolution and its aftermath to the lives of country people through a detailed analysis of legislative attempts to privatize common land in southern France, and the socio-economic and agricultural ramifications of this privatization.
