Renaissance and Revolt - Essays in the Intellectual and Social History of Early Modern France

Klappentext Including Professor salmon's pioneering and authoritative analyses as well as particular studies of french revolts. Zusammenfassung The essays in this volume place the history of ideas and of literature in early modern France within their social context. They include the author's pioneering and authoritative analyses as well as particular studies of popular revolts. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Humanism, Stoicism, and Interest of State: 1. Cicero and Tacitus in sixteenth-century France; 2. Protestant jurists and theologians in early modern France: the family of Cappel; 3. French satire in the late sixteenth century; 4. Rohan and interest of state; Part II. Sovereignty, Resistance, and Christian obedience: 5. Bodin and the monarchomachs; 6. An alternative theory of popular resistance: Buchanan, Rossaeus, and Locke; 7. Gallicanism and Anglicanism in the age of the Counter-Reformation; Part III. Structures and Fissures: 8. Venality of office and popular sedition in seventeenth-century France; 9. Peasant revolt in Vivarais, 1575-1580; 10. The Paris Sixteen, 1584-1594: the social analysis of a revolutionary movement; 11. The Audijos revolt: provincial liberties and institutional rivalries under Louis XIV; Index.

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• Autori: J.H.M. Salmon, John Hearsey McMillan Salmon
• Con la collaborazione di: John Elliott (Editore), Olwen Hufton (Editore)
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.12.2003
• EAN: 9780521522465
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52246-5
• Pagine: 320
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Early Mod
• Categorie: Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione > Enciclopedie, lessici; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia