Research Catalog

Title

Social relations, politics, and power in early modern France : Robert Descimon and the historian's craft / edited by Barbara B. Diefendorf.

Publication

• Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2016]
• ©2016

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Details

Additional Authors

• Diefendorf, Barbara B., 1946-
• Descimon, Robert

Description

vi, 312 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"This collection of essays focuses on the nexus of social relations, politics, and power in France as it moved from the age of religious wars into the age of absolutism. Using a wide variety of historical approaches and methods, these essays offer new insights into the evolving role of early modern elites and the social, familial, and cultural influences that shaped their values and priorities"--Provided by publisher.

Series Statement

Early modern studies series ; 19

Uniform Title

Early modern studies series ; 19.

Subject

• Descimon, Robert > Influence
• Elite (Social sciences) > France > Historiography
• Power (Social sciences) > France > Historiography
• Political culture > France > Historiography
• Social change > France > Historiography
• Historians > France > Biography
• France > History > Historiography. > 16th century
• France > History > Historiography. > 17th century
• France > Social conditions > Historiography
• France > Politics and government > Historiography

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction: Robert Descimon and the historian's craft / Barbara B. Diefendorf -- Robert Descimon, the Annales tradition, and the social history of the ruling classes / Jonathan Dewald -- Social history and the law in Old Regime France / Michael P. Breen -- Local officials and torture in seventeenth-century Bordeaux / Sara Beam -- Urban elites and politics in sixteenth-century Dijon / Mack P. Holt -- The notary as rural power broker : Maître Coujard and Pierre Collenot, Syndic of Allighy / James B. Collins -- Reading municipal lists, interpreting civic practice from the insights of Robert Descimon to seventeenth-century Bourges / Hilary Bernstein -- Qui étaient les députés? : an unknown group of Protestant leaders on the eve of the First War of Religion / Philip J. Benedict -- Civic engagement and public assistance in early modern Paris / Barbara B. Diefendorf -- Unfinished business : an edition of the "Manuscript History of the League" / Robert A. Schneider -- Intellectual trajectories and relations of a French historian / Robert Descimon -- Bibliography of the works of Robert Descimon -- Glossary.

Call Number

JFE 17-89

ISBN

• 9781612481630 (library binding : alkaline paper)
• 1612481639 (library binding : alkaline paper)

LCCN

• 2016009565
• 40026531358

OCLC

952200054

Title

Social relations, politics, and power in early modern France : Robert Descimon and the historian's craft / edited by Barbara B. Diefendorf.

Publisher

Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2016]

Copyright Date

©2016

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Early modern studies series ; 19

Early modern studies series ; 19.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Diefendorf, Barbara B., 1946- editor.

Descimon, Robert, honouree.

Other Standard Identifier

40026531358

Research Call Number

JFE 17-89