A survey of French history from the reign of Louis XI to the outbreak of the Wars of Religion that isolates some of the controversial theories of the period: state building, nobility and clientage and the Reformation and discusses them with full attention to the regional diversity of France. It also introduces the reader to recent research on the court and government set in the context of the basic social and economic movements of the period. It is argued that the basic identity of France as a nation was reinforced under the aegis of monarchical legitimacy backed by the nobility and the church, setting the pattern for the rest of the Ancien Regime.
- ISBN10 0333541235
- ISBN13 9780333541234
- Publish Date 8 February 1995
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 September 2001
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Palgrave Macmillan
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 456
- Language English