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 result is the most up-to-date synthesis of this period, showing how recent scholarship has significantly revised the traditional narrative of French history.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- 1: Mack P. Holt: The Kingdom of France in the Sixteenth Century
- 2: Philip T. Hoffman: The Economy
- 3: Jonathan Dewald: Social Groups and Cultural Practices
- 4: Barbara B. Diefendorf: Gender and the Family
- 5: Philip Benedict and Virginia Reinburg: Religion and the Sacred
- 6: Philip Benedict: The Wars of Religion
- 7: Barbara B. Diefendorf and Virginia Reinburg: Religious Co-existence and Catholic Renewal
- 8: Mack P. Holt: Redrawing Lines of Authority
- Conclusion
- Further Reading
- Chronology
- Maps
