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Book Synopsis The Society of Princes by : Jonathan Spangler
Download or read book The Society of Princes written by Jonathan Spangler and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The princes étrangers, or the foreign princes, were an influential group of courtiers in early modern France, who maintained their unofficial status as 'foreigners' due to membership in sovereign ruling families. Arguably the most influential of these were the princes of Lorraine, a sovereign state on France's eastern border. During the sixteenth century the Lorraine-Guise dominated the culture and politics of France, gaining a reputation as a powerful, manipulative family at the head of the Catholic League in the Wars of Religion and with close relationships with successive Valois monarchs and Catherine de Medici. After the traumas of 1588, however, although they faded from the narrative history of France, they nevertheless remained at the pinnacle of political culture until the end of the eighteenth century. This book examines the lesser-known period for the Guise at the later stages of the ancien régime, focusing on the recovery of lost fortunes, prestige, favour and influence that began towards the end of the reign of Louis XIII and continued through that of Louis XIV. Central to the work is the question of what it meant to be a member of a family of princely rank whose dynastic links outside the state guaranteed privileges and favours at the highest level. Jonathan Spangler investigates how an aristocratic family operated within that political culture, including facets of patronage (political, ecclesiastical, military, and the arts) and the meaning of dynasticism itself (marriages, testaments, women's roles, multiplicity of loyalties). The result is a thorough examination of the nature of crown-noble relations in the era of absolutism as seen through the example of the Lorraine-Guise. It sheds light on how the family which had so threatened the equilibrium of the late Valois monarchy became one of the strongest pillars supporting the regime of the later Bourbons.
Book Synopsis The Production, Distribution and Readership of a Conservative Journal of the Early French Revolution by : Harvey Chisick
Download or read book The Production, Distribution and Readership of a Conservative Journal of the Early French Revolution written by Harvey Chisick and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1992 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Harvey Chisick wrote this study after he came across the documents that form the heart of this study, the subscription lists to the the newspaper the "Ami du Roi", by accident while working on a a comparative study of the "Anne Litteraire" & "Journal Encyclopedique." Contents of this vol.: The Periodical Press in the 18th Century; The Short, Unhappy & Principled Career of the "Ami du Roi" of the Abbe Royou; The Production & Distribution of the "Ami du Roi"; The Office of the "Ami du Roi" as a Center for the Dissemination of Pamphlet Literature; The Subscribers to the "Ami du Roi": Geographical Distribution, Gender & Collective Subscriptions; The Subscribers of the "Ami du Roi": Status & Occupation; The Enlightenment & Counter-Revolution: The Contract Founding the "Ami du Roi"; Classification of Subscribers to the "Ami du Roi"; & Bibliography.
Book Synopsis The Prospect Before Her by : Olwen Hufton
Download or read book The Prospect Before Her written by Olwen Hufton and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-06-15 with total page 980 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Already hailed by English critics as "one of the most important works of history to be published since the Second World War, " Olwen Hufton's fascinating and brilliantly learned study begins, in this first of two volumes, with a wide ranging exploration of women's fate in Western Europe from medieval times to the early modern age. of illustrations.
Download or read book Family Business written by Julie Hardwick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-06-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeenth-century France, families were essential as both agents and objects in the shaping of capitalism and growth of powerful states - phenomena that were critical to the making of the modern world. For household members, neighbours, and authorities, the family business of the management of a broad range of tangible and intangible resources - law, borrowing, violence, and marital status among them - was central to political stability, economic productivity and cultural morality. The business of family life involved relationships that could be intimate (family and neighbours), intermediate (litigant and judge) or distant (governing authority and subject), and the resources in question were the currency of the early modern world these people knew. In all these regards, litigation was a key means of negotiating and contesting the challenges of daily life and the larger developments in which they were embedded. The relationships between families, economies, and states have often been reframed but the perils as well as promises have persisted. Then, as now, husbands and wives found the experience of marriage to be fraught with uncertainty and risk; economic insecurity and ubiquitous borrowing were profound challenges; domestic violence was a telling marker of inequality in families. Julie Hardwick examines a critical period in the long history of family business to highlight the centrality of the lived experiences of working families in major political, economic, and cultural transitions.
Book Synopsis Complete Works by : Stanley John Weyman
Download or read book Complete Works written by Stanley John Weyman and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Becoming a French Aristocrat by : Mark Motley
Download or read book Becoming a French Aristocrat written by Mark Motley and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the highest-ranking segment of the nobility, Mark Motley examines why a social group whose very essence was based on hereditary status would need or seek instruction and training for its young. As the "warrior nobility" adopted the courtly life epitomized by Versailles--with its code of etiquette and sensitivity to language and demeanor--education became more than a vehicle for professional training. Education, Motley argues, played both the conservative role of promoting assertions of "natural" superiority appropriate to a hereditary aristocracy, and the more dynamic role of fostering cultural changes that helped it maintain its power in a changing world. Based on such sources as family papers and correspondence, memoirs, and pedagogical treatises, this book explores education as it took place in the household, in secondary schools and riding academies, and at court and in the army. It shows how such education combined deference and solidarity, language and knowledge, and ceremonial behavior and festive disorder. In so doing, this work contends that education was an integral part of the aristocracy's response to absolutism in the French monarchy. Originally published in 1990. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis When Histories Collide by : Raymond D. Crotty
Download or read book When Histories Collide written by Raymond D. Crotty and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2001 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late economic historian, Raymond Crotty, a specialist on economic development in Ireland, left a challenging work that addresses the processes of world history from the neolithic revoution up to the end of the 20th century. On the way, Crotty tried to explain phenomena as diverse as the role of pastoral migrations, India's holy cows, the decline of the Roman empire, feudalism, slavery, Britain's early modern development, the patterns of Western colonization, the lack of socio-economic development in the contemporary third world, and the developmental success of Japan and China. Crotty's interdisciplinary framework combines elements agricultural economics, nutritional science, development studies, and demography into a comprehensive theory of history that will challenge and intrigue historians, social scientists, and their students.
Book Synopsis The Monarchy, the Estates and the Aristocracy in Renaissance France by : J. Russell Major
Download or read book The Monarchy, the Estates and the Aristocracy in Renaissance France written by J. Russell Major and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Major's aim in these articles has been to stimulate new assessments of the political, constitutional and social history of France in the 15th - 17th centuries. The first group examines the nature of the Renaissance monarchy, its strengths and its weaknesses and lack of effective controls. The next group explores the issue of why the Estates General, and some of the provincial estates, failed to develop in France, in marked contrast to the triumph of representative government in England. Finally, the author turns to the question of how the nobles succeeded in remaining the dominant social class. On the one hand, he traces the evolution of a patron-client relationship which compensated for the decay of the feudal ties of the Middle Ages; on the other, he challenges assumptions made of a decline in nobles' incomes, and contends that, so long as they held on to their lands and could escape the depredations of war, for most of the period they actually benefited from a marked increase in real income.
Download or read book The Familial State written by Julia Adams and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 17th century was called the Dutch 'Golden Age'. Over the course of 80 years, the tiny United Provinces of the Netherlands overthrew Spanish rule and became Europe's dominant power. In this book, Julia Adams explores the role that Holland's great families played in this dramatic history.
Book Synopsis After the Black Death, Second Edition by : George Huppert
Download or read book After the Black Death, Second Edition written by George Huppert and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-05-22 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for the first edition: "To give a sense of immediacy and vividness to the long period in such a short space is a major achievement." --History "Huppert's book is a little masterpiece every teacher should welcome." --Renaissance Quarterly A work of genuine social history, After the Black Death leads the reader into the real villages and cities of European society. For this second edition, George Huppert has added a new chapter on the incessant warfare of the age and thoroughly updated the bibliographical essay.
Book Synopsis From Valor to Pedigree by : Ellery Schalk
Download or read book From Valor to Pedigree written by Ellery Schalk and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-14 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study offers a new interpretation of how nobility was viewed in sixteenth-century France and the changes that occurred in that view as France moved into the period of religious wars and popular rebellions and the appearance of the absolutist state. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Book Synopsis The Glory and the Sorrow by : Timothy Tackett
Download or read book The Glory and the Sorrow written by Timothy Tackett and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2021-09-17 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate history of an ordinary Parisian citizen and his neighbors that reflects on the origins and radicalization of the French Revolution. What was it like to live through one of the most transformational periods in world history? In The Glory and the Sorrow, eminent historian Timothy Tackett answers this question through a masterful recreation of the world of Adrien Colson, a minor lawyer who lived in Paris at the end of the Old Regime and during the first eight years of the French Revolution. Based on over a thousand letters written by Colson to his closest friend, this book vividly narrates everyday life for an "ordinary citizen" during extraordinary times, as well as the life of a neighborhood on a small street in central Paris. It explores the real, day-to-day experience of a revolution: not only the thrill, the joy, and the enthusiasm, but also the uncertainty, the confusion, the anxiety, and the disappointments. While Colson reported on major events such as the storming of the Bastille and the King's flight to Varennes, his correspondence underscores the extent to which the great majority of Parisians--and no doubt of the French population more generally--in no way anticipated the Revolution; the incessant circulation and power of rumors of impending disasters in Paris, not just in the summer of 1789 but continually from the autumn of 1789 throughout the Revolutionary decade; and how this affected popular psychology and behavior. In doing so, this account demonstrates how a Parisian and his neighbors were radicalized over the course of the Revolution. An evocative account of Colson's time and place, The Glory and the Sorrow is a compelling microhistory of Revolutionary France.
Book Synopsis Cardinal Richelieu by : Joseph Bergin
Download or read book Cardinal Richelieu written by Joseph Bergin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 1985-01-01 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Armand Jean du Plessis, cardinal-duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac; 9 September 1585? 4 December 1642) was a French clergyman, noble and statesman. Consecrated as a bishop in 1608, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Catholic Church and the French government, becoming a Cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he had fostered."--Wikipedia.
Book Synopsis The House of Guise by : Henry Dwight Sedgwick
Download or read book The House of Guise written by Henry Dwight Sedgwick and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Genealogies in the Library of Congress by : Marion J. Kaminkow
Download or read book Genealogies in the Library of Congress written by Marion J. Kaminkow and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2012-09 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "Supplement to Genealogies in the Library of Congress" lists all genealogies in the Library of Congress that were catalogued between 1972 and 1976, showing acquisitions made by the Library in the five years since publication of the original two-volume Bibliography. Arranged alphabetically by family name, it adds several thousand works to the canon, clinching the Bibliography's position as the premier finding-aid in genealogy.
Book Synopsis A History of France by : John Ronald Moreton-Macdonald
Download or read book A History of France written by John Ronald Moreton-Macdonald and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Economy and Society in Burgundy Since 1850 by : Robert Aldrich
Download or read book Economy and Society in Burgundy Since 1850 written by Robert Aldrich and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-01-20 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1984 Economy and Society in Burgundy Since 1850 provides a comprehensive overview of the modern history of Burgundy. Burgundy is best known for its wine and its capital of Dijon is most often associated with mustard. Yet the region’s modern history is more than a history of gastronomy. The coming of the railways in the 1850s greatly changed the economic life of the area, spurring the growth of Dijon and contributing to rural depopulation. Agricultural crises throughout the nineteenth century, such as phylloxera epidemic in the vineyards, caused further dislocation in rural life. Even in the twentieth century, the countryside remained agricultural while the city of Dijon owes its dynamism to the expansion of the service sector rather than to heavy industry. This book argues that this evolution -modernisation without industrialization- is not a matter of economic retardation but of the suitability of the region’s natural resources and the intentional choice of its population. Rich in archival sources this book is an interesting read for scholars and researchers of French history, European history, and modern history.
