| Description | | - Sets frequently studied events such as the Wars of Religion and the Reformation in the wider context of French history
- Team of leading historians provides a reliable synthesis of recent research
- Includes thematic chapters on social and cultural issues such as family and gender, alongside political and economic narratives
- Mack Holt's substantial introduction and conclusion draw together key areas of debate
| | This volume makes accessible some of the most recent research of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in France. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1648, each chapter focuses on a specific area of French history: politics and the state, the economy, society and culture, religion, and gender and the family. The book is more than a
collection of topical essays, however, as each chapter is linked to the others, together forming a coherent narrative of French history from the advent of the Reformation, through the civil wars of the second half of the sixteenth century, to the Fronde. The result is the most up-to-date synthesis of this period, showing how recent scholarship has significantly revised the traditional narrative of
French history. |
Readership: Students of French history in the early modern period, European Reformation history, and French literature in this period. Also the interested general reader.
| Contents |
Introduction
,
Mack P. Holt
1.
The Kingdom of France in the Sixteenth Century
,
Mack P. Holt
2.
The Economy
,
Philip T. Hoffman
3.
Social Groups and Cultural Practices
,
Jonathan Dewald
4.
Gender and the Family
,
Barbara B. Diefendorf
5.
Religion and the Sacred
,
Philip Benedict and Virginia Reinburg
6.
The Wars of Religion
,
Philip Benedict
7.
Religious Co-existence and Catholic Renewal
,
Barbara B. Diefendorf and Virginia Reinburg
8.
Redrawing Lines of Authority
,
Mack P. Holt
Conclusion
,
Mack P. Holt
Further Reading
Chronology
Maps
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| Authors, editors,
and contributors |
Edited by Mack P. Holt, Professor of History, George Mason University
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