The Voices of Nîmes: Women, Sex, and Marriage in Reformation Languedoc

by Suzannah Lipscomb

Book Overview

Most of the women who ever lived left no trace of their existence on the record of history. Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century women of the middling and lower levels of society left no letters or diaries in which they expressed what they felt or thought. Criminal courts and magistrates kept few records of their testimonies, and no ecclesiastical court records are known to survive for the French Roman Catholic Church between 1540 and 1667. For the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198797664
• ISBN13: 9780198797661
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 1.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.3"