Historical Communities - Cities, Erudition, and National Identity in Early Modern France

This book reveals the importance of urban history writing in early modern France for individual towns and the French kingdom. It demonstrates how local scholars developed useful historical narratives, interacted within the Republic of Letters, and created a French identity.

About the author

Hilary J. Bernstein, Ph.D. (1996, Princeton University), is Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Author of Between Crown and Community: Politics and Civic Culture in Sixteenth-Century Poitiers (2004), she has published numerous articles on French urban historical culture and memory.

Product details

• Authors: Hilary J Bernstein, Hilary J. Bernstein
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.01.2021
• EAN: 9789004426467
• ISBN: 978-90-04-42646-7
• No. of pages: 448
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 239 mm x 30 mm
• Weight: 764 g
• Series: Scientific and Learned Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Modern era up to 1918; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories