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

Publication Info. Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Early modern studies series ; 19
Early modern studies series ; 19.
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.
Bibliography 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.
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Subject Descimon, Robert -- Influence.
Descimon, Robert.
Descimon, Robert -- Influence.
France -- History -- 16th century -- Historiography.
France.
History.
Chronological Term 16th century
Subject Historiography.
France -- History -- 17th century -- Historiography.
Chronological Term 17th century
Subject Elite (Social sciences) -- France -- Historiography.
Elite (Social sciences)
Power (Social sciences) -- France -- Historiography.
Political culture -- France -- Historiography.
Power (Social sciences)
Social change -- France -- Historiography.
Political culture.
France -- Social conditions -- Historiography.
Social conditions.
France -- Politics and government -- Historiography.
Politics and government.
Historians -- France -- Biography.
Historians.
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Social change.
HISTORY -- Europe -- France.
Social history -- Historiography.
Social change -- Historiography.
Politics and government -- Historiography.
Political culture -- Historiography.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Historiographie -- Actes de congres.
Historiens français -- Actes de congres.
Pouvoir (sciences sociales) -- France -- 17e siecle -- Actes de congres.
Pouvoir (sciences sociales) -- France -- 16e siecle -- Actes de congres.
Relations humaines -- France -- 17e siecle -- Actes de congres.
Relations humaines -- France -- 16e siecle -- Actes de congres.
France -- Conditions sociales -- 16e siecle -- Actes de congres.
France -- Conditions sociales -- 17e siecle -- Actes de congres.
16e siecle-17e siecle.
Ancien regime (France ; 16e siecle-18e siecle)
Culture politique.
Offices.
Ordres (structure sociale)
Élite (sciences sociales)
France.
Chronological Term 1500-1699
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Actes de congrès.
[Melanges et hommages]
Festschriften.
Festschriften.
Biographies.
Added Author Diefendorf, Barbara B., 1946- editor.
Descimon, Robert, honouree.
Other Form: Print version: Social relations, politics, and power in early modern France. Kirksville, Missouri : Truman State University Press, [2016] 9781612481630 (DLC) 2016009565
ISBN 9781612481647 (electronic book)
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