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Private Ambition and Political Alliances in Louis XIV's Government
The Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain Family 1650-1715
Av Sara Chapman
Inbunden, 2004
1355 kr
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An exploration of the personal and professional networks of political power during the reign of Louis XIV, focusing on the influence of his minister Louis Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain.This book explores the processes of state-building and the nature of political power in France during the reign of …
Meat Matters
Butchers, Politics, and Market Culture in Eighteenth-Century Paris
Av Sydney Watts
Inbunden, 2006
1287 kr
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In this book, Watts examines why meat mattered to a growing number of Parisians and explores the political, economic and cultural matters of the meat trade in order to illuminate more fully the changing world of Old Regime Paris.In eighteenth century Paris, municipal authorities, guild officers, …
Transforming the Republic of Letters
Pierre-Daniel Huet and European Intellectual Life, 1650-1720
Inbunden, 2007
1342 kr
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A multi-faceted study of intellectual transformation in early modern Europe as seen through the eyes of a leading French scholar and cleric, Pierre-Daniel Huet (1630-1721).Early modern Europe's most extensive commonwealth -- the Republic of Letters -- could not be found on any map. This republic …
Enlightened Feudalism
Seigneurial Justice and Village Society in Eighteenth-Century Northern Burgundy
Inbunden, 2008
1355 kr
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A reassessment of seigneurial justice that presents a new vision of village society in eighteenth-century France.Thousands of seigneurial courts covered the French countryside in the early modern era. By the eighteenth century these courts were subject to mounting criticism, as Enlightenment …
King's Bench
Bailiwick Magistrates and Local Governance in Normandy, 1670-1740
Inbunden, 2008
1355 kr
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An examination of kings' courts and lords' courts in Normandy that opens a new chapter in the debate over absolutism, sovereignty, and the nature of the state in early modern France.Hidden deep in the countryside of France lay early modern Europe's largest bureaucracy: twenty- to thirty-thousand …
Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France
Franche-Comté and Absolute Monarchy, 1674-1715
Av Darryl Dee
Inbunden, 2009
1342 kr
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New insights on the growth of the territorial state in early modern Europe, the nature of the French absolute monarchy, and the political legacy of the Sun King.Driven by a desire for glory and renown, Louis XIV presided over France's last great burst of territorial expansion in Europe. During the …
Politics of Piety
Franciscan Preachers During the Wars of Religion, 1560-1600
Häftad, 2010
399 kr
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A history of the role played by the Franciscans during the contentious Wars of Religion (1562-1594).In this paperback reissue of The Politics of Piety, author Megan Armstrong situates the Franciscan order at the heart of the religious and political conflicts of the late sixteenth century to show …
Show of Hands for the Republic
Opinion, Information, and Repression in Eighteenth-Century Rural France
Inbunden, 2014
1355 kr
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A fresh perspective on rural responses to the French Revolution, using sedition investigations to reveal how villagers took their place on the political stage.In the French village of Segonzac in 1796, weaver Thomas Bordas spoke out during a municipal ceremony. Frustrated by how stifling the …
Pragmatic Toleration
The Politics of Religious Heterodoxy in Early Reformation Antwerp, 1515-1555
Inbunden, 2015
1250 kr
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Using the case of early-sixteenth-century Antwerp, argues that practices of religious toleration in the Christian West first emerged not as the outgrowth of beliefs about human rights, but as a practical consequence of religious coexistence.In a modern world still struggling to achieve religious …
Scourge of Demons
Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent
Häftad, 2016
392 kr
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A fascinating examination of alleged demon possession and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century convent in Carpi, Italy.In 1636, residents at the convent of Santa Chiara in Carpi in northern Italy were struck by an extraordinary illness that provoked bizarre behavior. Eventually numbering fourteen, …
Jenatsch's Axe
Social Boundaries, Identity, and Myth in the Era of the Thirty Years' War
Häftad, 2016
344 kr
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A richly documented investigation of a well-known figure in Swiss history who crossed diverse social and cultural boundaries in pre-modern Europe.During the turbulent events of Europe's Thirty Years' War, both ruthlessness and adaptability were crucial ingredients for success. In this engaging …
Reformation and the German Territorial State
Upper Franconia, 1300-1630
Häftad, 2016
399 kr
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A richly documented study of the interrelation between religious reformation and territorial state-building in the German region of upper Franconia from the later Middle Ages through the Confessional era.Religious reform and the rise of the territorial state were the central features of early …
Violence and Honor in Prerevolutionary Périgord
Inbunden, 2018
1355 kr
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Drawing on rich archival sources, explores the relationship between honor and violence in the Périgord region in prerevolutionary France.Historians and scholars across other disciplines have long sought an explanation for why late medieval and early modern Europeans experienced elevated rates of …
State Formation in Early Modern Alsace, 1648-1789
Inbunden, 2019
1355 kr
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A richly documented study of early modern state formation, sovereignty, legitimacy, and comparative political culture in Alsace between the Peace of Westphalia and the French RevolutionAlsace, a contested borderland region with a long and obdurate German heritage, first became part of France after …
Gunpowder, Masculinity, and Warfare in German Texts, 1400-1700
Inbunden, 2019
1770 kr
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How gunpowder technology exploded heroes, heroics, and war stories from 1400 to 1700, and how German writers tried to glue them back togetherGuns have been linked with masculinity since their earliest days on European battlefields, and surviving treatises on gunpowder from the early fifteenth …
Consuls and Captives
Dutch-North African Diplomacy in the Early Modern Mediterranean
Inbunden, 2019
1315 kr
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Analyzes how negotiations between Dutch consuls and North African rulers over the liberation of Dutch sailors helped create a new diplomatic order in the western Mediterranean.This work offers a new perspective on the history of diplomacy in the western Mediterranean, examining how piracy and …
Consistory and Social Discipline in Calvin's Geneva
Häftad, 2020
381 kr
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Examines the most successful institution of social discipline in Reformation Europe: the Consistory of Geneva during the time of John CalvinCreated by John Calvin, the Consistory of Geneva was a quasi-tribunal entrusted with enforcing Reformed morality. Comprised of pastors and elders, this body …
Dutch Reformed Protestants in the Holy Roman Empire, c.1550–1620
A Reformation of Refugees
Av Mirjam van Veen, Jesse Spohnholz
Häftad, 2024
381 kr
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Examines the diverse experiences of Reformed Protestant religious refugees fleeing war and persecution in the Netherlands for cities and towns in the Holy Roman Empire in the late sixteenth century. Starting in the mid-sixteenth century, widespread persecution and war forced tens of thousands of …
By My Absolute Royal Authority
Justice and the Castilian Commonwealth at the Beginning of the First Global Age
Av J. B. Owens
Inbunden, 2005
958 kr
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A study of the kingdom of Castile's judicial administration that brings together political ideas and political action by giving serious attention to how well royal justices were able to handle difficult, prominent lawsuits that raised politically troubling questions and involved major litigants."By …
Law, City, and King
Legal Culture, Municipal Politics, and State Formation in Early Modern Dijon
Inbunden, 2007
930 kr
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An in-depth examination of political activities in early modern France that opens up new perspectives on the local workings of the French state and the experiences of those who participated in it.Law, City, and King provides important new insights into the transformation of political participation …
The Scourge of Demons
Possession, Lust, and Witchcraft in a Seventeenth-Century Italian Convent
Av Jeffrey R. (Royalty Account) Watt
Inbunden, 2009
930 kr
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A fascinating examination of alleged demon possession and witchcraft in a seventeenth-century convent in Carpi, Italy.
Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State
The Mahuet of Lorraine
Inbunden, 2011
958 kr
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Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State addresses a subject few other scholars of early modern Europe attempt: the hundreds of small states that made up the overwhelming majority of Europe's political entities before the nineteenth century. Author Charles Lipp studies the elite of the duchy …
Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege
Nicolas Desmaretz and the Tax on Wealth
Inbunden, 2012
1085 kr
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The government of Louis XIV developed two taxes during the last thirty years of the king's reign that forced the privileged to pay. This book is a study of how those taxes developed and what caused them to be adopted.Louis XIV's Assault on Privilege examines Nicolas Desmaretz, one of the most …
