Changing Identities in Early Modern France

Häftad, Engelska, 1997

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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 of deviance and dissent, particularly in regard to women’s roles in religious reform movements and such sensationalized phenomena as the witch hunts and infanticide trials. Concluding essays examine how regional and confessional identities reshaped French identity in response to the discovery of the New World and the spectacular spread of Calvinism. Contributors. Charmarie Blaisdell, William Bouwsma, Lawrence M. Bryant, Denis Crouzet, Robert Descimon, Barbara B. Diefendorf, Richard M. Golden, Sarah Hanley, Mack P. Holt, Donald R. Kelley, Kristen B. Neuschel, J. H. M. Salmon, Zachary Sayre Schiffman, Silvia Shannon, Alfred Soman, Michael Wolfe

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Utgivningsdatum1997-04-16
Mått158 x 236 x 30 mm
Vikt730 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor424
FörlagDuke University Press
ISBN9780822319139

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Foreword / Natalie Zemon Davis vIntroduction: Becoming French in Early Modern Europe / Michael Wolfe 1I. Ideologies and Institutions 23The French Romantics and the Renaissance / J. H. M. Salmon 25Making History: Ceremonial Texts, Royal Space, and Political Theory in the Sixteenth Century / Lawrence M. Bryant 46Identity Politics and Rulership in France: Female Political Place and the Fraudulent Salic Law in Christine de Pizan and Jean de Montreuil / Sarah Hanley 78The Birth of the Nobility of the Robe: Dignity versus Privilege in the Parlement of Paris, 1500–1700 / Robert Descimon 95Noblewomen and War in Sixteenth-Century France / Kristen B. Neuschel 124II. Dissent and Deviance 145Religion, Gender, and Class: Nuns and Authority in Early Modern France / Charmaine Blaisdell 147An Age of Gold? Parisian Women, the Holy League, and the Roots of Catholic Renewal / Barbara B. Diefendorf 169A Woman and the Devil: Possession and Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century France / Denis Crouzet 191Satan in Europe: The Geography of Witch Hunts / Richard M. Golden 216Anatomy of an Infanticide Trial: The Case of Marie-Jeanne Bartonnet (1742) / Alfred Soman 248III. Identities in Flux 273New World, Old Historiography / Donald R. Kelley 275Montaigne and the Discovery of the Ordinary / William Bouwsma 294An Intellectual in Politics: Montaigne as Mayor of Bordeaux / Zachary Sayre Schiffman 307Villegagnon, Polyphemus, and Cain of America: Religion and Polemics in the French New World / Silvia Shannon 325Burgundians into Frenchmen: Catholic Identity in Sixteenth-Century Burgundy / Mack P. Holt 345Protestant Reactions to the Conversion of Henry IV / Michael Wolfe 371Index 391Contributors 409