Renaissance and reformation France, 1500-1648
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Renaissance and reformation France, 1500-1648
(The short Oxford history of France)
Oxford University Press, 2002
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- : pbk
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Includes further reading (p. [234]-244) and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: pbk ISBN 9780198731658
Description
This volume makes accessible some of the most recent research of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in France. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1648, each chapter focuses on a specific area of French history: politics and the state, the economy, society and culture, religion, and gender and the family. The book is more than a collection of topical essays, however, as each chapter is linked to the
others, together forming a coherent narrative of French history from the advent of the Reformation, through the civil wars of the second half of the sixteenth century, to the Fronde. The result is the most up-to-date synthesis of this period, showing how recent scholarship has significantly revised the
traditional narrative of French history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Kingdom of France in the Sixteenth Century
- 2. Social Groups and Cultural Practices
- 3. Rural, Urban, and Global Economies
- 4. Gender and the Family
- 5. Religion and the Sacred
- 6. The Wars of Religion
- 7. Catholic Reform and Religious Coexistence
- 8. Redrawing the Lines of Authority
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Chronology
- Maps
- Volume
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: hbk ISBN 9780198731665
Description
This volume brings together an international team of experts who have synthesized and summarized the most recent research on French history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1660, each chapter focuses on a specific area of French history: politics and the state, the economy, society and culture, religion, gender and the family, and France's burgeoning overseas
empire, which was constructed in this period. The book is more than a collection of topical essays, however, as each chapter is linked to the others, together forming a coherent narrative of French history from the advent of the Reformation, through the civil wars of the second half of the sixteenth
century, to the Fronde. The result is the most up-to-date synthesis of this period, showing how recent scholarship has significantly revised the traditional narrative of French history.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. The Kingdom of France in the Sixteenth Century
- 2. The Economy
- 3. Social Groups and Cultural Practices
- 4. Gender and the Family
- 5. Religion and the Sacred
- 6. The Wars of Religion
- 7. Religious Co-existence and Catholic Renewal
- 8. Redrawing Lines of Authority
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Chronology
- Maps
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