Renaissance and Reformation France

1500-1648

Inbunden, Engelska, 2002

Av Mack P. Holt, George Mason University) Holt, Mack P. (, Professor of History, Mack P Holt

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This volume brings together an international team of experts who have synthesized and summarized the most recent research on French history of the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Using a topical approach to provide broad thematic coverage of the period from 1500 to 1660, each chapter focuses on a specific area of French history: politics and the state, the economy, society and culture, religion, gender and the family, and France's burgeoning overseas empire, which was constructed in this period. The book is more than a collection of topical essays, however, as each chapter is linked to the others, together forming a coherent narrative of French history from the advent of the Reformation, through the civil wars of the second half of the sixteenth century, to the Fronde. The result is the most up-to-date synthesis of this period, showing how recent scholarship has significantly revised the traditional narrative of French history.

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Utgivningsdatum2002-08-01
Mått144 x 224 x 20 mm
Vikt435 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieShort Oxford History of France
Antal sidor276
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198731665

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Mack P. Holt is Professor of History at George Mason University. His work has won prizes from the Sixteenth Century Studies Conference, the National Huguenot Society, and the Southern Historical Association. He has served on the editorial board of French Historical Studies, and in 1999 was the president of the Society for French Historical Studies. He has previously taught at Harvard and Vanderbilt universities.

this book represents a welcome contribution to the existing literature...recent scholarship is effectively incorporated into a fluent and accessible narrative. Above all the volume displays a remarkable coherence, in part because of the decision to focus on the sixteenth-century wars of religion, and the prominence given to religion more generally...this volume is set to become a standard text for any course on the period' Penny Roberts, University of Warwick, History