Routledge, 2016. — 359 p. Based on a fresh reading of primary sources, Lindy Grant's comprehensive biography of Abbot Suger (1081-1151) provides a reassessment of a key figure of the twelfth century. Active in secular and religious affairs alike - Suger was Regent of France and also abbot of one of the most important abbeys in Europe during the time of the Gregorian reforms....
Oxford University Press, 1999. — 280 p. This book analyses the process by which class society developed in post-revolutionary France. Focusing on bourgeois men and on their voluntary associations, the book addresses the construction of class and gender identities. In their gentlemen's clubs, learned societies, musical groups, gardening clubs, and charitable associations,...
Amsterdam University Press, 2022. — 290 p. Explores how one early medieval poet survived and thrived amidst the political turbulence of sixth-century Merovingian Gaul, and how the language of friendship shaped beliefs and behaviours, leading to social cohesion even within kingdoms repeatedly wracked by civil wars.
Pearson Education, 1995. — 405 p. Of all Rome's western successors, the Frankish kingdom that emerged in France, Belgium, the Rhineland and Switzerland was the longest lasting and most powerful; yet the Merovingians, who ruled it for nearly 300 years (481-751), have been harshly treated by posterity. This is partly through the hostility of the Carolingians who usurped and...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 232 р. A princess born to the Thuringian royal house. A captive in war, forced to marry the Frankish king who killed her family. A queen, who renounced her position, received consecration as a deaconess, and took monastic vows. A religious leader, who acquired a fragment of the Cross of the Crucifixion for her convent of Holy Cross in Poitiers....
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 336 р. Superior Women examines the claims of abbesses of the abbey of Sainte-Croix in medieval Poitiers to authority from the abbey's foundation to its 1520 reform. These women claimed to hold authority over their own community, over dependent chapters of male canons, and over extensive properties in Poitou; male officials such as the king of...
I.B. Tauris, 2017. — 370 p. The Mediterranean was one of Napoleon's greatest spheres of influence. With territory in Spain, Italy and, of course, France, Napoleon's regime dominated the Great Sea for much of the early nineteenth century. The 'Napoleonic Mediterranean' was composed of almost the entirety of the western, European lands bordering its northern shores, however...
Berghahn Books, 2001. — 302 p. What view of man did the French Revolutionaries hold? Anyone who purports to be interested in the "Rights of Man" could be expected to see this question as crucial and yet, surprisingly, it is rarely raised. Through his work as a legal historian, Xavier Martin came to realize that there is no unified view of man and that, alongside the "official"...
Public Affairs, 2023. — 352 p. A French-Algerian journalist, born and brought up in a neglected Paris suburb, offers unique insight into crisis-ridden France from a very different perspective to the establishment elites. France, the romanticized, revolutionary land with an enlightened historical mission—Liberty, Equality, Fraternity for all—is failing its own citizens and its...
Penguin Books, 2018. — 887 p. A life of the greatest French statesman of modern times. In six weeks in the early summer of 1940, France was over-run by German troops and quickly surrendered. The French government of Marshal Pétain sued for peace and signed an armistice. One little-known junior French general, refusing to accept defeat, made his way to England. On 18 June he...
Yale University Press, 2016. — 512 p. Louis XVI of France, who was guillotined in 1793 during the Revolution and Reign of Terror, is commonly portrayed in fiction and film either as a weak and stupid despot in thrall to his beautiful, shallow wife, Marie Antoinette, or as a cruel and treasonous tyrant. Historian John Hardman disputes both these versions in a fascinating new...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009. — 255 p. Entrepreneurship and the promise of a better city in Lyon an age of powerful ideas, eager moves, and mixed results. Chronological Landmarks. Key Institutions in Eighteenth-Century Lyon. Units of Measurement. Monetary Units and Prices. Illustrations. Introduction Entrepreneurship in a Premodern Context. The Making of a Vocation....
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022. — 344 p. The intertwined history of French state formation and empire building in New France. Challenging the traditional narrative of an orderly establishment of law, sovereignty, and authority in the colony, Disputing New France reveals how negotiations and contestations among a range of actors actively shaped empire building, offering...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 480 p. The rise to power of Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635-1719), a queen in all but name, was nothing short of extraordinary. Born into poverty and ignominy, she used her intellect, charisma, and connections to join the ranks of fashionable society, eventually establishing herself at the French court as governess to...
Harvard University Press, 2023. — 480 p. In July 1945, France’s disgraced former head of state was on trial. As head of the Vichy regime, Philippe Pétain was a lightning rod for collective guilt and retribution. But he has also been a conservative icon ever since. Julian Jackson blends courtroom drama and brilliant narrative history to examine one of history’s great moral dilemmas.
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. — 344 p. Drawing on a vast array of official correspondence, merchant's letters, ship's logs, and graphic material from archives and research libraries in Canada, France, and the United States, Kenneth Banks details how France, as the most powerful nation on the Continent and possessing a tradition of maritime interest in the Americas and...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2020. — 384 p. An exploration of the history of cannabis use and prohibition in the French imperial nation-state. Despite having the highest rates of cannabis use in the continent, France enforces the most repressive laws against the drug in all of Europe. Perhaps surprisingly, France was once the epicentre of a global movement to medicalize...
Современная научная мысль. — 2021. — №1. — с. 11-17. В статье рассматриваются проблемы монетарной политики властей во Французском королевстве в первой четверти XV в. Исследуя особенности денежной политики, автор акцентирует внимание на причинах и последствиях девальвации денег, которая произошла в период с 1415 по 1422 гг. Показано, что специфику данного процесса определило...
Современная научная мысль. — 2022. — № 6. — с. 7-11. Статья посвящена исследованию обстоятельств убийства герцога Людовика Орлеанского, связанных с местом, где произошло покушение. Следствие, проведенное прево Парижа в ноябре 1407 г., показало, что существовало два этапа подготовки: в июне и в ноябре. В обоих случаях заговорщики выбрали в качестве наиболее удобного города...
Известия Иркутского государственного университета. — 2021. — Т. 37. — с. 60–68. Изучается ситуация, сложившаяся во Франции в первой трети XV в. Анализируются факторы, обусловившие распад единства королевства. Отмечается, что в ходе гражданской войны герцог Жан Бесстрашный и королева Изабелла Баварская в 1417-1418 гг. стали формировать альтернативные органы управления для...
Известия Саратовского университета. — 2023. — Т. 23, вып. 2. — с. 218–225. Данная статья посвящена изучению особенностей кризиса королевской власти во Франции начала XV в. Его спровоцировала психическая болезнь короля Карла VI, поскольку во Франции отсутствовала практика передачи власти в случае недееспособности короля его сыновьям. Ситуация осложнялась тем, что наследники еще...
University of Toronto Press, 2019. — 122 p. In the thirteenth century, radical reformers – churchmen, devout laywomen and laymen, and secular rulers – undertook Herculean efforts aimed at the moral reform of society. No principality was more affected by these impulses than France under its king, Louis IX or "Saint Louis." The monarch surrounded himself with gifted, energetic...
Marquette University Press, 1997. — 344 p. In the late 5th and early 6th centuries, Rome had fallen and chroniclers were few. Much of the information they passed along to us, whether in the form of story or song, history or fiction, was offered with a specific goal in mind, such as defending the authority of the Church or confirming the power of God. In this time, before France...
University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009. — 280 p. Paris in the Middle Ages was home to royalty, mountebanks, Knights Templar, merchants, prostitutes, and canons. Bursting outward from the encompassing wall, it was Europe's largest, most cosmopolitan city. Simone Roux chronicles the lives of Parisians over the course of a dozen generations as Paris grew from a military stronghold...
Boydell Press, 1999. — 250 p. Around 1200, sovereignty over the duchy of Brittany was disputed by the Angevin kings of England and the Capetian kings of France. With few local chronicle sources concerning Brittany in this important period, ducal charters provide crucial evidence for politics, external relations, and the conduct of government. They are also an essential source...
Belin, 2001. — 324 p. Les guerres de Religion n'ont pas seulement été une période de contestations et de violences. Elles ont aussi permis au souverain de renforcer son pouvoir, en utilisant des nobles dévoués et compétents, capables de relayer ses volontés dans les provinces. En Anjou, les principales responsabilités politiques et militaires furent confiées à des gentilshommes...
The History Press, 2004. — 320 p. From 1853 to 1870 Eugenie de Montijo was Empress of the French, sharing the Second Empire with her husband Napoleon III. She impressed the Prussian Chancellor Bismarck so much that he called her 'The only man in Paris'. In sharp contrast to Queen Victoria, who met and admired her, and whose power was controlled by a constitutional monarchy,...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 1991. — 205 p. Heller refutes Roland Mousnier's thesis that early modern France was a society of orders in which most people knew and accepted their status in society. This concept of order certainly had meaning for the sixteenth-century élite because of aristocratic domination over land and people, but it is not clear that this was also the...
Enigma Books, 2004. — 205 p. This book is particularly relevant to the current debate on terrorism. That story constitutes the main part of this book. It details the methods used, including torture and summary executions, and the results obtained by the special paratrooper commando units.
Manchester University Press, 2014. — 280 p. This book seeks to rehabilitate the reputation of Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes, the controversial favourite of Louis XIII often maligned by historians. Kettering argues that the traditional historical interpretation of Luynes is significantly influenced by the testimony of Richelieu, who subjected Luynes to a devastating character...
Lexington Books/Fortress Academic, 2015. — 182 p. This biography of Francois Buzot, a Girondin leader in both the Constituent Assembly (1789-1791) and the National Convention (1792-1793), illustrates how his early life in Evreux and his training as a lawyer influenced his ideas and actions during the French Revolution, when he championed individual rights and the rule of law in...
Routledge, 1962. — 379 p. Internationally renowned as the greatest authority on the French Revolution, Georges Lefebvre combined impeccable scholarship with a lively writing style. His masterly overview of the history of the French Revolution has taken its rightful place as the definitive account. A vivid narrative of events in France and across Europe is combined with acute...
Brepols, 2012. — 470 p. — (Burgundica 20). La fondation d'une Chambre des comptes à Lille par Philippe le Hardi en 1386 fut l'un des outils principaux d'intégration des Pays-Bas méridionaux à l'Etat bourguignon naissant. Dans le cadre d'un Etat princier bipolaire largement tourné vers le royaume l'institution s'inspira des usages flamands, artésiens et monarchiques, et s'inséra...
Brepols, 2013. — 675 p. — (Burgundica 21). De 1419 à 1467, l'Etat bourguignon connut une expansion sans précédent, en partie servie par la politique diplomatique du duc de Bourgogne. Acteur central du mémorable congrès d'Arras de 1435, Philippe le Bon se posa en arbitre de l'Europe, grâce à ses alliances successives avec l'Angleterre et la France, mais aussi aux liens tissés...
Brepols, 2015. — 400 p. — (Burgundica 23). Jean sans Peur qui succède à son père Philippe le Hardi à la tête du duché de Bourgogne en 1404, dut attendre la mort de sa mère Marguerite pour hériter du comté en 1405. L’historiographie l’a longtemps montré comme détaché de son petit territoire comtois en raison de sa forte implication dans la politique du royaume de France voisin...
Brepols, 2018. — 386 p. — (Burgundica 27). L'encadrement de l'Etat bourguignon était fortement aristocratique. Les ducs de Bourgogne de la Maison de Valois ont largement recruté leurs conseillers, leurs capitaines et l'élite de leur entourage et de leur hôtel au sein de la noblesse des pays sur lesquels ils exerçaient leur autorité ou leur influence. Ce fut en particulier le...
Brepols, 2021. — 435 p. — (Burgundica 32). En 1330, le duc de Bourgogne Eudes IV prend en main le gouvernement du comté de Bourgogne dont vient d'hériter son épouse. Comme après lui son petit-fils Philippe de Rouvres, il se retrouve alors à la tête d'une principauté incluant l'Artois et les duché et comté de Bourgogne. Quelles sont les retombées de cette situation inédite en...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010. — 424 p. This cultural history of civil warfare in early seventeenth-century France examines how warrior nobles' practices of violence shaped provincial society and the royal state. "Warrior Pursuits" analyzes in detail how provincial nobles engaged in revolt and civil warfare in southern France between 1598 and 1635. The southern French...
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015. — 241 p. From 1661 to 1664, France was mesmerized by the arrest and trial of Nicolas Fouquet, the country's superintendent of finance. Prosecuted on trumped-up charges of embezzlement, mismanagement of funds, and high treason, Fouquet managed to exonerate himself from all of the major charges over the course of three long years, in the...
McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001. — 480 p. Love places these matters in context against the broader background of endemic civil war, contemporary religious culture, and the many responsibilities imposed upon Henri by his royal rank and political role. Blood and Religion concludes with a close analysis of Henri's conversion to Catholicism in July 1593, including the king's...
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, 2014. — 224 p. This engaging, knowledgeable book traces the American path France has followed since resolving its searing Algerian conflict in 1962. Barnett Singer convincingly demolishes two pervasive clichés about modern France: first, that the country never has been fit to fight wars, including wars on terror; and second, that the French...
Routledge, 2023. — 379 p. This volume focuses on Wendy Davies's work on early medieval Breton texts and their implications. Beginning with core analyses of the Redon and Landévennec cartularies, it continues with papers that tease out some of the key social implications of the 9th-century Redon material - on the nature of political power, on rural communities, on the settlement...
Routledge, 2020. — 284 p. Writing Normandy brings together eighteen articles by historian Felice Lifshitz, some of which are published here for the first time. The articles examine the various ways in which local and regional narratives about the past were created and revised in Normandy during the central Middle Ages. These narratives are analyzed through a combination of both...
Routledge, 2015. — 224 p. The reputation of Francis I, king of France (1515-1547) has fluctuated over the centuries. Acclaimed as noble' and great' in the sixteenth century, he came to be unfairly denigrated under the Bourbon kings and the republic. But, in the twentieth century, research based on archival material has restored his standing as one of the most important rulers...
Routledge, 2023. — 170 p. Over the course of the 19th century, European societies started thinking of themselves as “civilisations of work.” In the wake of the political and industrial revolutions, labour as a human activity and condition gradually came to embody a general principle of order, progress, and governance. How did work become so central to our systems of citizenship...
Bloomsbury Academic, 2007. — 223 p. The House of Bourbon is one of the most historically important European royal houses. Bourbon kings first ruled Navarre and France in the sixteenth century and by the eighteenth century, members of the Bourbon dynasty also held thrones in Spain and southern Italy – in fact the current king of Spain is a Bourbon monarch. This new history of...
D. S. Brewer, 2022. — 244 p. — (Gallica 48). A new exploration of the complexities and resolutions at play in the writings of Marguerite de Navarre, offering insights into how her work reflected the turbulence, uncertainties, and assurances of her historical period. Marguerite de Navarre was a Renaissance princess, diplomat, and mystical poet. She is arguably best known for...
D.S. Brewer, 2013. — 316 p. The question of what medieval "courtliness" was, both as a literary influence and as a historical "reality", is debated in this volume. The concept of courtliness forms the theme of this collection of essays. Focused on works written in the Francophone world between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, they examine courtliness as both an historical...
Cambridge University Press, 2023. — 225 p. Vichy's Double Bind advances a significant new interpretation of French collaboration during the Second World War. Arguing that the path to collaboration involved not merely Nazi Germany but Fascist Italy, it suggests that the Vichy French government was caught in a double bind. On the one hand, many of the threats to France's...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 520 p. Karolingische politische Ordnung ist, anders als das Reich der Ottonen, in der Forschung durchaus als hoch entwickelt erkannt worden. Dabei scheut sich die Forschung aus verschiedenen Gründen, das Karolingerreich als staatliche Ordnung zu betrachten, auch weil dem Reich die dazu notwendige Transpersonalität fehle. In der karolingischen...