Society and institutions in early modern France / edited by Mack P. Holt
1991, 1st edition. Athens : University of Georgia Press. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #426359
ISBN: 0820313114
Physical description; xxiii, 242 pages : maps ; 24 cm. Notes; Dedicated to J. Russell Major. "Bibliography of the works of J. Russell Major, compiled by Garrett leaves McAinsh": pages 223-229. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Introduction / Mack P. Holt -- Royal Army during the early Wars of Religion, 1559-1576 / James B. wood -- The French constitution revised: representative assemblies and resistance right in the Sixteenth Century / Sarah Hanley -- Sword as the robe in Seventeenth-Century Provence and Brittany / Donna Bohanan -- Narrowing horizons: commerce and derogation in Normandy / Gayle K. Brunelle -- Absolutism and municipal autonomy: Henry IV and the 1602 Pancarte revolt in Limoges / Annette Finley-Croswhite -- Popular political culture and mayoral elections in Sixteenth-Century Dijon / Mack P. Holt -- Money, dignity and self-esteem in the relations between judges and great nobles of the Parlement of Paris during the Fronde / Orest Ranum -- The Parlement of Toulouse and the Fronde / William Beik -- Shadow of the Sixteenth Century in Seventeenth-Century absolutist France: example of Moliere / Ellery Schalk -- Family and early career of Michel de Marillac (1560-1632) / Donald A. Bailey -- Parlements and Litigants at the King's councils during the personal rule of Louis XIV: the example of cassation / Albert N. Hamscher -- Bibliography of the works of J. Russell Major / compiled by Garrett L. McAinsh. Subjects; Major, J. Russell (James Russell) 1921-1998. 1500-1699. Geschichte 1500-1799. Geschichte 1500-1715. Representative government and representation France History. Nobility France History. Authoritarianism France History. Monarchy France History. Authoritarianism. Monarchy. Nobility. Politics and government.
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