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Changing Identities in Early Modern France
Wolfe
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Description for Changing Identities in Early Modern France
Paperback. Suitable for students and scholars of France, the early modern period, and the history of religion, this book offers interpretations of what it meant to be French during a period of profound transition, from the outbreak of the Hundred Years War in the mid-fourteenth century to the consolidation of the Bourbon monarchy in the seventeenth century. Editor(s): Wolfe, Michael. Num Pages: 424 pages, 10 b&w photographs. BIC Classification: HBJD; HBLH; JFC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 152 x 229 x 30. Weight in Grams: 730.
Changing Identities in Early Modern France offers new interpretations of what it meant to be French during a period of profound transition, from the outbreak of the Hundred Years War to the consolidation of the Bourbon monarchy in the seventeenth century. As medieval notions were gradually replaced by new definitions of the state, society, and family, dynastic struggles and religious wars raised questions about loyalty and identity and destabilized the meaning of "Frenchness."
After examining the interplay between competing ideologies and public institutions, from the monarchy to the Parlement of Paris to the aristocratic household, the volume explores the dynamics ... Read more
Changing Identities in Early Modern France offers new interpretations of what it meant to be French during a period of profound transition, from the outbreak of the Hundred Years War to the consolidation of the Bourbon monarchy in the seventeenth century. As medieval notions were gradually replaced by new definitions of the state, society, and family, dynastic struggles and religious wars raised questions about loyalty and identity and destabilized the meaning of "Frenchness."
After examining the interplay between competing ideologies and public institutions, from the monarchy to the Parlement of Paris to the aristocratic household, the volume explores the dynamics ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
424
Condition
New
Number of Pages
424
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822319139
SKU
V9780822319139
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About Wolfe
Michael Wolfe is Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
Reviews for Changing Identities in Early Modern France
“Changing Identities in Early Modern France is an outstanding volume. Michael Wolfe has done a superb job.”—Carolyn Chappell Lougee, Stanford University “This volume presents both new material and new interpretation. The scholarship is superior. Historians will welcome its publication.”—Jonathan Dewald, State University of New York at Buffalo