Eight essays explore key aspects of the lives and values of sixteenth-century French peasant, artisan, poor, and tradesmen as they reflect the competing claims of tradition and innovation. Bibliogs
Between the scholars and the general public exists a real and ever-widening gulf. This book is an attempt to bridge that gulf. Many accepted beliefs about Louis XIV's reign, if not about the king hims
What kinds of people were in the crowds that stormed the Bastille, marched to Versailles to bring the king and queen back to Paris, overthrew the monarchy in August 1792, or impassively witnessed the
The author describes the various ideas that may be called chivalric, illustrates their nature and content from contemporary literature, and attempts to show what effect they had on the ethical princip
The book analyzes French society before the French Revolution — the so-called "Ancien Regime" — and investigates the causes and forces that brought about the Revolution. It is one of the major early h
