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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"early modern France"”.
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Bonds of Nobility and the Culture of Revolt: Provincial Nobles and Civil Conflict in Early Modern France, 1610--1635
The culture of revolt re-formed warrior nobles' bonds of nobility , as nobles' social and cultural relationships became centered on the practices of civil violence. Confessionalism and group rituals forged new bonds between the nobles who participated in civil conflict. Warrior nobles formed ideals …
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Visceral Creativity: Digestion, Earthly Melancholy, and Materiality in the Graphic Arts of Early Modern France and the German-Speaking Lands (c. 1530-1675)
… of the Alps, examining a continuity between France and the German lands: geographical areas which both had an especially pronounced ‘culture of excretion’. From a broader perspective, this research responds to a widespread scholarly call for more attention to the organic soul and the lower …
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Coercion, Conversion and Counterinsurgency in Louis XIV's France
… to the process of state formation in Early Modern France.
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'La Violence et la mauvaise foi': Context and rhetoric in Pierre Bayle's Ce que c'est que la France toute Catholique
… presents an examination of Ce que c'est que la France toute Catholique (1686) by Pierre Bayle, a prominent figure in the Republic of Letters and the Huguenot Refuge in the seventeenth century. This pamphlet was the first occasional text that Bayle published following the Revocation of the Edict …
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The Police and the City: Paris, 1660-1750
… and that of city as community/state. In early modern France, this constituent ambivalence was embodied in the notion of police. The object of this dissertation is to trace the contours of the ville policée, or well-ordered city--an idea of the city that underpinned the work of police …
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Family, property, and negotiations of authority: Francoise Brulart and the estate management of noble women in early modern Burgundy
<p>There is no question that early modern France was a patriarchal society. In fact, during this period, there was an increase in legislation further subordinating women under the authority of their fathers and then of their husbands. The legal identities of women as daughters and wives was …
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Cardinal de Retz, French Noble Exile, and Political Mobility in Seventeenth-Century Europe
… of French noble exile. Surveys of disgrace in early modern France have primarily examined top-down formal banishment and viewed the years that aristocrats spent in foreign exile as little more than footnotes to their careers. By contrast, this thesis presents the first in-depth study of the …
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How the Apions became wealthy: finding the money on a late antique estate
… Athens, Ptolemaic Egypt, Republican Rome, and Early Modern France.
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Female Equestrian Culture in France, 1600-1715
… investigates female equestrianism in France between 1600 and the end of Louis XIV’s reign in 1715. The introduction situates the study of female horseback riding within the scholarship on early modern women’s sport, elite femininity and corporeal culture in seventeenth-century France. …
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Medievalism in the French Renaissance: Literature, History, and Nation in Claude Fauchet's Veilles ou Observations (1555)
… of national identity in sixteenth-century France. It focuses on an unpublished and little-studied manuscript miscellany, the Veilles ou Observations de plusieurs choses dinnes de mémoire en la lecture d’aucuns autheurs françois. The Veilles are a collection of essays inspired primarily by …
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Strategic litigation: Legal culture and daily life in sixteenth-century Normandy
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2020-02-28 without embargo terms