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The Kingdom of France in the early modern period, from the Renaissance (c. 1500–1550) to the Revolution (1789–1804), was a monarchy ruled by the House of Bourbon (a Capetian cadet branch). This corresponds to the so-called Ancien Régime ("old rule").
27 kwi 2017 · The most complex and most challenging is Burguière and Revel 1989–1993. For the early modern period specifically, see Goubert and Roche 2000. Many syntheses consider a century (Roche 1995) or a reign, or give a brief presentation of the main features of the Old Regime (Doyle 2001).
The State in Early Modern France. A new edition of James B. Collins’s acclaimed synthesis that challenged long-standing views of the origins of modern states and absolute monar-chy through an analysis of early modern Europe’s most important con-tinental state.
This major new textbook addresses fundamental questions about the nature of the state in early modern Europe through an analysis of the most important continental state, France.
A magisterial history of French society between the end of the middle ages and the Revolution by one of the world's leading authorities on early modern France. Using colorful examples and incorporating the latest scholarship, William Beik conveys the distinctiveness of early modern society and identifies the cultural practices that defined the ...
France, like the other central governments of Europe, came, by the early fourteenth century, to possess the tures necessary for systematic action in three key areas: (1) tion of physical welfare and property; (2) adjudication of and (3) paying for the first two functions. European polities.
23 kwi 1998 · This book provides an overall interpretation of a decisive period in French history, from the chaos of the Wars of Religion to the death of Louis XIV. A clear but economical narrative of the major political events is combined with an analysis of the long-term factors which decisively moulded the evolution of both state and society.
