Social Relations, Politics, and Power in Early Modern France : : Robert Descimon and the Historian's Craft / / ed. by Barbara B. Diefendorf.

The study of history is a fundamentally sociable practice, with the exchange of ideas taking place in writing, over the seminar table, and often in informal discussions over food. These essays grew out of a web of sociability centered around French historian Robert Descimon, and focus on the nexus o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn State University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021]
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Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:Early Modern Studies ; 19
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Robert Descimon and the Historian's Craft
  • 1. Robert Descimon, the Annales Tradition, and the Social History of the Ruling Classes
  • 2. Law and Social History in Early Modern France
  • 3. Local Officials and Torture in Seventeenth-Century Bordeaux
  • 4. Urban Elites and Politics in Sixteenth-Century Dijon
  • 5. The Notary as Rural Power Broker: Maître Coujard and Pierre Collenot, Syndic of Alligny
  • 6. Reading Municipal Lists, Interpreting Civic Practice from the Insights of Robert Descimon to Seventeenth-Century Bourges
  • 7. Qui étaient les députés? An Unknown Group of Protestant Leaders on the Eve of the First War of Religion
  • 8. Civic Engagement and Public Assistance in Sixteenth-Century Paris
  • 9. Unfinished Business: An Edition of the "Manuscript History of the League"
  • 10. Gallicans Not Magistrates: The Dupuy Cabinet in the Age of Richelieu
  • 11. Intellectual Trajectories and Relationships of a French Historian
  • Bibliography of Robert Descimon's Writings
  • Glossary
  • Contributors
  • Index