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Violence and Honor in Prerevolutionary Périgord
Drawing on rich archival sources, explores the relationship between honor and violence in the Périgord region in prerevolutionary France. Historians and scholars across other …
Expansion and Crisis in Louis XIV's France
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 …
Consuls and Captives
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. …
Noble Strategies in an Early Modern Small State
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 …
State Formation in Early Modern Alsace, 1648-1789
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 …
Transforming the Republic of Letters
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 …
Pragmatic Toleration
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 …
Private Ambition and Political Alliances in Louis XIV's Government
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 …
A Show of Hands for the Republic
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 …
Enlightened Feudalism
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 King's Bench
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 …
Civic Christianity in Renaissance Italy
A compelling examination of how a religious brotherhood administered charity in its local community and acted as mediator between provincial elites and the early modern state. …