The Nobility of the Election of Bayeux, 1463-1666: Continuity Through Change

by James B. Wood

Book Overview

Reconstructing the collective experience of an entire provincial nobility over a period of more than two centuries, James Wood finds current theories about the early modernFrench nobility inadequate. Concentrating on socio-economic structures and changes, he analyzes the composition and way of life of all the nobles--poor and prosperous, obscure and notable--who lived in the election of Bayeux between the mid-fifteenth and mid-seventeenth centuries...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691643377
• ISBN13: 9780691643373
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"