Changing Identities in Early Modern France
edited by Michael Wolfe
Duke University Press 1997
Stron X+411, format: 15x24 cm
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Changing Identities in Early Modern France offers new interpretations of what it meant to be French during a period of profound transition, from the outbreak of the Hundred Years' War to the consolidation of the Bourbon monarchy in the seventeenth century. As medieval notions gradually gave way to new definitions of the state, society, and family, dynastic struggles and religious wars raised questions about loyalty and identity and destabilized the meaning of "Frenchness."
After examining the interplay between competing ideologies and public institutions, from the monarchy to the Parlement of Paris to the aristocratic household, the volume explores the dynamics of deviance and dissent, particularly in regard to women's roles in religious reform movements and such sensationalized phenomena as the witch hunts and infanticide trials. Concluding essays examine how regional and confessional identities reshaped French identity in response to the discovery of the New World and the spectacular spread of Calvinism.
" 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
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Michael Wolfe is Associate Professor of History at Pennsylvania State University, Altoona.
Cover art: Michelangelo working frenetically on a statue at night. Engraving from Michelet, Histoire de France (Rouff edition), 2:1033.
Contents
Michael Wolfe
Introduction: Becoming French in Ear/y Modern Europe i
I. Ideologies and Institutions 23
J. H. M. Salmon
The French Romantics and the Renaissance 2 5
Lawrence M. Bryant
Making History: Ceremonial Texts, Royal Space, and Political Theory in the Sixteenth Century 46
Sarah Hanley
Identity Politics and Rulership in France: Female Political Place and the Fraudulent Salic Law in Christine de Pizan and Jean de Montreuil 7 8
Robert Descimon
The Birth of the Nobility of the Robe: Dignity versus Privilege in the Parlement of Paris, 1300-[zasłonięte] 1700
Kristen B. Neuschel
Noblewomen and War in Sixteenth-Century France 124
II. Dissent and Deviance 145
Charmarie Blaisdell
Religion, Gender, and Class: Nuns and Authority in Early Modern France 147
Barbara B. Diefendorf
An Age of Gold? Parisian Women, the Holy League, and the Roots of Catholic Renewal 169
Denis Crouzet
A Woman and the Devil: Possession and Exorcism in Sixteenth-Century France 191
Richard M. Golden
Satan in Europe: The Geography of Witch Hunts 216
Alfred Soman
Anatomy of an Infanticide Trial: The Case of Marie-Jeanne Bartonnet (1742) 248
III Identities in Flux 273
Donald R. Kelley
New World, Old Historiography 275
William Bouwsma
Montaigne and the Discovery of the Ordinary 294
Zachary Sayre Schiffman
An Intellectual in Politics: Montaigne as Mayor of Bordeaux 307
Silvia Shannon
Villegagnon, Polyphemus, and Cain of America: Religion and Polemics in the French New World 325
Mack R Holt
Burgundians into Frenchmen: Catholic Identity in Sixteenth-Century Burgundy 345
Michael Wolfe
Protestant Reactions to the Conversion of Henry TV 371
Index 391
Contributors 409
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