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Author | : Donna Bohanan |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2017-03-10 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1403940347 |
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This book analyses the evolving relationship between the French monarchy and the French nobility in the early modern period. New interpretations of the absolutist state in France have challenged the orthodox vision of the interaction between the crown and elite society. By focusing on the struggle of central government to control the periphery, Bohanan links the literature on collaboration, patronage and taxation with research on the social origins and structure of provincial nobilities. Three provinical examples, Provence, Dauphine and Brittany, illustrate the ways in which elites organised and mobilised by vertical ties (ties of dependency based on patronage) were co-opted or subverted by the crown. The monarchy's success in raising more money from these pays d'etats depended on its ability to juggle a set of different strategies, each conceived according to the particularity of the social, political and institutional context of the province. Bohanan shows that the strategies and expedients employed by the crown varied from province to province; conceived on an individual basis, they bear the signs of ad hoc responses rather than a gradnoise plan to centralise.
Author | : Jonathan Dewald |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2015-06-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0271067519 |
Download Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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.
Author | : Elizabeth C. Macknight |
Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2018-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1526120534 |
Download Nobility and patrimony in modern France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study of tangible and intangible cultural heritage explains the significance of nobles’ conservationist traditions for public engagement with the history of France. During the French Revolution nobles’ property was seized, destroyed, or sold off by the nation. State intervention during the nineteenth century meant historic monuments became protected under law in the public interest. The Journées du Patrimoine, created in 1984 by the French Ministry for Culture, became a Europe-wide calendar event in 1991. Each year millions of French and international visitors enter residences and museums to admire France’s aristocratic cultural heritage. Drawing on archival evidence from across the country, the book presents a compelling account of power, interest and emotion in family dynamics and nobles’ relations with rural and urban communities.
Author | : Jay M. Smith |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9780472096381 |
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A study of the paradoxical position of French nobility just before the French Revolution
Author | : Philip Benedict |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2005-06-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134892195 |
Download Cities and Social Change in Early Modern France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The major changes experienced by France's cities over the period from the end of the middle ages to the eve of the Revolution are explored by six French and North American historians.
Author | : Stuart Carroll |
Publisher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 384 |
Release | : 2006-05-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191516147 |
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The rise of civilized conduct and behaviour has long been seen as one of the major factors in the transformation from medieval to modern society. Thinkers and historians alike argue that violence progressively declined as men learned to control their emotions. The feud is a phenomenon associated with backward societies, and in the West duelling codified behaviour and channelled aggression into ritualised combats that satisfied honour without the shedding of blood. French manners and codes of civility laid the foundations of civilized Western values. But as this original work of archival research shows we continue to romanticize violence in the era of the swashbuckling swordsman. In France, thousands of men died in duels in which the rules of the game were regularly flouted. Many duels were in fact mini-battles and must be seen not as a replacement of the blood feud, but as a continuation of vengeance-taking in a much bloodier form. This book outlines the nature of feuding in France and its intensification in the wake of the Protestant Reformation, civil war and dynastic weakness, and considers the solutions proposed by thinkers from Montaigne to Hobbes. The creation of the largest standing army in Europe since the Romans was one such solution, but the militarization of society, a model adopted throughout Europe, reveals the darker side of the civilizing process.
Author | : David Potter |
Publisher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1995-04-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780312124809 |
Download A History of France, 1460–1560 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A survey of French history from the reign of Louis XI to the outbreak of the Wars of Religion that isolates some of the controversial theories of the period: state building, nobility and clientage and the Reformation and discusses them with full attention to the regional diversity of France. It also introduces the reader to recent research on the court and government set in the context of the basic social and economic movements of the period. It is argued that the basic identity of France as a nation was reinforced under the aegis of monarchical legitimacy backed by the nobility and the church, setting the pattern for the rest of the Ancien Regime.
Author | : Kristen Brooke Neuschel |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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In this boldly innovative synthesis of political history and interdisciplinary social history, Kristen B. Neuschel revises our understanding of politics in early modern Europe. Drawing on the methods of the linguist and the ethnographer, Neuschel shows that early modern nobles must, like the common people of that period, be approached as having a mentalit very different from our own. In particular, she argues that the world view of these nobles was shaped by their still largely oral culture, and that historians must take this into account if they are to understand, for example, the nobles' volatile loyalties and their close attention to seemingly trivial moments of insult and self-aggrandizement.
Author | : James B. Collins |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780521533140 |
Download Classes, Estates and Order in Early-Modern Brittany Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The classes and their interests are analyzed first, in an examination of the Breton economy, and then the social system and the political superstructure that preserved it. Finally, Professor Collins addresses the question of order itself. How did the elites preserve order? What order did they wish to preserve? His analysis suggests that early modern France was a much more unstable, mobile society than previously thought; that absolutism existed more in theory than in practice; and that local elites and the Crown compromised in mutually beneficial ways to maintain their combined control over society. They imposed a new order, one neither feudal nor absolutist, on a society reexamining the meaning of basic structures such as the relationship of the family and the individual, the role of women in society, and property.
Author | : Richard Bonney |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Download The Limits of Absolutism in Ancien Régime France Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This selection of articles is organized around three broad themes: the nature of the governing system in France ('Absolutism'); the political crisis of the mid-17th-century (the 'Fronde'); and the development of royal finance. The author first considers the growth of the French state in its ideological and institutional aspects, then the opposition such developments provoked, much centred on the figure of Cardinal Mazarin. In the last section particular attention is given to fiscal history, including a comparison of mid-18th-century France with the other states of Europe. Professor Bonney would argue that the 'fiscal imperative', the increased requirements posed by the costs of war, and the long-term consequences of fiscal growth may be seen as one of the decisive factors in the development of the modern state.