A social and cultural history of early modern France /
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Cambridge, UK :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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Table of Contents:
- France and its populations
- Rural communities and seigneurial power
- Peasant life, agriculture, and social distribution
- Domination by the nobility
- City life and city people
- Monarchy and the new nobility
- Ecclesiastical power and religious faith
- Warfare and society
- Social bonds and social protest
- Traditional attitudes and identities
- Emerging identities: education and the new elite
- Monarchs and courtly society
- Aristocracy's last bloom and the forces of change
- Brief synopsis of early modern French history
- Genealogy of the French monarchy.