The Practice of Patriarchy - Gender and the Politics of Household Authority in Early Modern France

About the author

Julie Hardwick is Assistant Professor of History at Texas Christian University.

Summary

This text examines the lives of notaries and their families in the French city of Nantes during the 16th and 17th centuries, and the daily experience of middling urban families - from work to family to neighbourhood to involvment in local politics.

Product details

• Authors: Julie Hardwick, Julie (University of Texas at Austin) Hardwick, Hardwick Julie
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 22.09.1998
• EAN: 9780271017839
• ISBN: 978-0-271-01783-9
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Marriage & Family, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, HISTORY / Europe / General, Sociology: family & relationships, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Gender studies, gender groups, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Sociology: family and relationships, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599