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Marie Seong-Hak Kim : Custom, Law, and Monarchy. A Legal History of Early Modern France
Ancien régime France did not have a unified law. Legal relations of the people were governed by a disorganized amalgam of norms, including provincial and local customs (coutumes), elements of Roman law and canon law, royal edicts and (...)
Adam Horsley : Libertines and the Law. Subversive Authors and Criminal Justice in Early Seventeenth-Century France
Following the assassination of Henri IV in 1610, the political turbulence of Louis XIII’s early reign led to renewed efforts to police the book trade. Yet this period also witnessed a golden age of so-called ’libertine’ literature, including a (...)
Jonathan Spangler : Monsieur. Second Sons in the Monarchy of France, 1550–1800
For the first time, this volume brings together the history of the royal spare in the monarchy of early modern France, those younger brothers of kings known simply as ‘Monsieur’. Ranging from the Wars of Religion to the French Revolution, (...)
Jace Stuckey (éd.) : The Legend of Charlemagne. Envisioning Empire in the Middle Ages
There are few historical figures in the Middle Ages that cast a larger shadow than Charlemagne. This volume brings together a collection of studies on the Charlemagne legend from a wide range of fields, not only adding to the growing corpus of (...)
Enrico Boccaccini : Reflecting Mirrors, East and West. Transcultural Comparisons of Advice Literature for Rulers (8th - 13th century)
In Reflecting Mirrors, East and West Enrico Boccaccini sheds new light on Mirrors for Princes, the pre-modern genre of advice literature for rulers. A popular genre in the societies that emerged from the Late Antique oecumene, Mirrors for (...)