Warrior pursuits : noble culture and civil conflict in early modern France

Author(s)

• Sandberg, Brian

Bibliographic Information

Warrior pursuits : noble culture and civil conflict in early modern France

Brian Sandberg

（The Johns Hopkins University studies in historical and political science, 128th ser., 3）

Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017, c2010

• : pbk

Note

First published in hardcover, 2010

Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-381) and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Warrior nobles frequently armed themselves for civil war in southern France during the troubled early seventeenth century. These bellicose nobles' practices of violence shaped provincial society and the royal state in early modern France. The southern French provinces of Guyenne and Languedoc suffered almost continual religious strife and civil conflict between 1598 and 1635, providing an excellent case for investigating the dynamics of early modern civil violence. Warrior Pursuits constructs a cultural history of civil conflict, analyzing in detail how provincial nobles engaged in revolt and civil warfare during this period. Brian Sandberg's extensive archival research on noble families in these provinces reveals that violence continued to be a way of life for many French nobles, challenging previous scholarship that depicts a progressive "civilizing" of noble culture. Sandberg argues that southern French nobles engaged in warrior pursuits-social and cultural practices of violence designed to raise personal military forces and to wage civil warfare in order to advance various political and religious goals. Close relationships between the profession of arms, the bonds of nobility, and the culture of revolt allowed nobles to regard their violent performances as "heroic gestures" and "beautiful warrior acts." Warrior nobles represented the key organizers of civil warfare in the early seventeenth century, orchestrating all aspects of the conduct of civil warfare-from recruitment to combat-according to their own understandings of their warrior pursuits. Building on the work of Arlette Jouanna and other historians of the nobility, Sandberg provides new perspectives on noble culture, state development, and civil warfare in early modern France. French historians and scholars of the Reformation and the European Wars of Religion will find Warrior Pursuits engaging and insightful.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Note on Citations and Translations Prologue Part I 1. The Great Quantity of Nobility That Is Found Here 2. The Grandeur and Magnificence of His Household 3. He Had No Trouble Helping Himself to Money Part II 4. With the Assistance of My Particular Friends 5. The Dignity and Authority of Their Charges 6. Actions the Most Perilous Being the Most Honorable Part III 7. The Call to Arms from All Quarters 8. A Great Multitude of Soldiers 9. The Zeal of This Nobility Conclusion List of Abbreviations Notes Bibliography Index

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• NCID: BB27969815
• ISBN:
  • 9781421423982
• LCCN: 2010001216
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Baltimore
• Pages/Volumes: xxx, 393 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : HT653.F7
  • DC22 : 305.522094409032
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Nobility -- France, Southern -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Elite (Social sciences) -- France, Southern -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Soldiers -- France, Southern -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Militarism -- France, Southern -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Violence -- France, Southern -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Social conflict -- France, Southern -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : Political culture -- France, Southern -- History -- 17th century
  • LCSH : France, Southern -- Social conditions -- 17th century
  • LCSH : France, Southern -- Politics and government -- 17th century
  • LCSH : France -- History -- Bourbons, 1589-1789
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00073584