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Book SynopsisThis study offers a new interpretation of how nobility was viewed in sixteenth-century France and the changes that occurred in that view as France moved into the period of religious wars and popular rebellions and the appearance of the absolutist state. Originally published in 1986. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand tec
Table of Contents*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. vii*Preface, pg. ix*Introduction, pg. xiii*1. The Military Profession As a Social Class in the Sixteenth Century, pg. 3*2. Nobility As Virtue and the Medieval Origins of the "Feudal-Military" View, pg. 21*3. The Ancient and Renaissance Italian Traditions and the Continued Predominance of the Medieval View, pg. 37*4. Troubles of the 1570s and 1580s and the Beginnings of the Prise de Conscience, pg. 65*5. The Crucial Years: The Early 1590s, pg. 94*6. The Separation of Virtue and Nobility and The Absolutist State in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century, pg. 115*7. Old and New Marques de Noblesse and the Diminished Importance of Nobility in the First Half of the Seventeenth Century, pg. 145*8. Education, the Academies, and the Emergence of the New Image of the Cultured Noble-Aristocrat, pg. 174*9. Conclusions and Perspectives, pg. 202*Bibliography, pg. 223*Index, pg. 233
