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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Place / Publishing House: | University Park, PA : : Penn State University Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2021 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Early Modern Studies ;
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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