Description
Book SynopsisSuitable for students and scholars of France, the early modern period, and the history of religion, this book offers interpretations of what it meant to be French during a period of profound transition, from the outbreak of the Hundred Years War in the mid-fourteenth century to the consolidation of the Bourbon monarchy in the seventeenth century.
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Changing Identities in Early Modern France is an outstanding volume. Michael Wolfe has done a superb job.”—Carolyn Chappell Lougee, Stanford University
“This volume presents both new material and new interpretation. The scholarship is superior. Historians will welcome its publication.”—Jonathan Dewald, State University of New York at Buffalo
Table of ContentsForeword / Natalie Zemon Davis v
Introduction: Becoming French in Early Modern Europe / Michael Wolfe 1
I. Ideologies and Institutions 23
The French Romantics and the Renaissance / J. H. M. Salmon 25
Making History: Ceremonial Texts, Royal Space, and Political Theory in the Sixteenth Century / Lawrence M. Bryant 46
Identity Politics and Rulership in France: Female Political Place and the Fraudulent Salic Law in Christine de Pizan and Jean de Montreuil / Sarah Hanley 78
The Birth of the Nobility of the Robe: Dignity versus Privilege in the Parlement of Paris, 1500–1700 / Robert Descimon 95
Noblewomen and War in Sixteenth-Century France / Kristen B. Neuschel 124
II. Dissent and Deviance 145
Religion, Gender, and Class: Nuns and Authority in Early Modern France / Charmaine Blaisdell 147
An Age of Gold? Parisian Women, the Holy League, and the Roots of Catholic Renewal / Barbara B. Diefendorf 169
A Woman and the Devil: Possession and Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century France / Denis Crouzet 191
Satan in Europe: The Geography of Witch Hunts / Richard M. Golden 216
Anatomy of an Infanticide Trial: The Case of Marie-Jeanne Bartonnet (1742) / Alfred Soman 248
III. Identities in Flux 273
New World, Old Historiography / Donald R. Kelley 275
Montaigne and the Discovery of the Ordinary / William Bouwsma 294
An Intellectual in Politics: Montaigne as Mayor of Bordeaux / Zachary Sayre Schiffman 307
Villegagnon, Polyphemus, and Cain of America: Religion and Polemics in the French New World / Silvia Shannon 325
Burgundians into Frenchmen: Catholic Identity in Sixteenth-Century Burgundy / Mack P. Holt 345
Protestant Reactions to the Conversion of Henry IV / Michael Wolfe 371
Index 391
Contributors 409
