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agricultural stagnation
Arnaud Du Tilh
Author_Sharon Kettering
Bishop's Palace
Bishop’s Palace
Bourbon kings
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Catherine De Bourbon
Catholic reform movement
Chambre Des Comptes
De Marillac
demographic crisis
Des Comptes
Duchesse De Guise
Duchesse Du Maine
early
early modern history
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france
French society
gender relations research
guerre
Henri III
Henri IV's Reign
Henri IV’s Reign
Jean Louis Guez De Balzac
Jeanne Des Anges
kinship networks
La Feuillade
La Tour
louis
Louis XIV's Government
Louis XIV's Reign
Louis XIV’s Government
Louis XIV’s Reign
Madame De Maintenon
Marquise De Maintenon
martin
Michel De Marillac
modern
mousnier
Neonatal Death Rate
reign
roland
seventeenth century French social change
social change
social stratification
Sword Nobles
Tridentine Decrees
Urbain Grandier
urbanisation in Europe
Witchcraft Prosecutions
xivs
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781138425279
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jun 2017
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This book provides a "birds eye" view of social change in France during the "long seventeenth century" from 1589-1715. One of the most dynamic phases of French history, it covers the reigns of the first three Bourbon kings, Henri IV, Louis XIII, and Louis XIV. The author explores the upheavals in French society during this period through an examination of the bonds which tied various classes and groupings together: including rank, honour, and reputation; family, household and kinship; faith and the Church; and state and obedience to the King. Acting as a social glue against instability and fragmentation, in periods of great transformation some of these social solidarities are eroded whilst new ones emerge. Sharon Kettering shows how nuclear family ties emerged at the expense of extended kinship ties, while traditional rural ties were eroded by a combination of demographic crisis and agricultural stagnation. Urban ties of neighbourhood, sociability and work increased with rapid urbanisation. By 1715, France had become a more peaceful and civilised place, and this book discusses some of the reasons why.
