Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France write by Suzanne Desan. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Family, Gender, and Law in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris
From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris write by Janine M. Lanza. This book was released on 2016-04-22. From Wives to Widows in Early Modern Paris available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Looking especially at widows of master craftsmen in early modern Paris, this study provides analysis of the social and cultural structures that shaped widows' lives as well as their day-to-day experiences. Janine Lanza examines widows in early modern Paris at every social and economic level, beginning with the late sixteenth century when changes in royal law curtailed the movement of property within families up to the time of the French Revolution. The glimpses she gives us of widows running businesses, debating remarriage, and negotiating marriage contracts offer precious insights into the daily lives of women in this period. Lanza shows that understanding widows dramatically alters our understanding of gender, not only in terms of how it was lived in this period but also how historians can use this idea as a category of analysis. Her study also engages the historiographical issue of business and entrepreneurship, particularly women's participation in the world of work; and explicitly examines the place of the law in the lived experience of the early modern period. How did widowed women use their newly acquired legal emancipation? How did they handle their emotional loss? How did their roles in their families and their communities change? How did they remain financially solvent without a man in the house? How did they make decisions that had always been made by the men around them? These questions all touch upon the experience of widows and on the ways women related to prevalent structures and ideologies in this society. Lanza's study of these women, the ways they were represented and how they experienced their widowhood, challenges many historical assumptions about women and their roles with respect to the law, the family, and economic activity.
The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France
The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France write by Suzanne Desan. This book was released on 2006-06-19. The Family on Trial in Revolutionary France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Annotation A sophisticated and groundbreaking book on what women actually did and what actually happened to them during the French Revolution.
Family Business
Family Business - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Family Business write by Julie Hardwick. This book was released on 2009-06-25. Family Business available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 17th-century France, families were essential in the shaping of capitalism and the process of state formation. Exploring civil lawsuits in French cities, 'Family Business' reveals the part that the management of everyday difficulties, in court and out, played in these wider phenomena.
Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France
Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France write by Jonathan Dewald. This book was released on 2015-06-15. Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Status, Power, and Identity in Early Modern France, Jonathan Dewald explores European aristocratic society by looking closely at one of its most prominent families. The Rohan were rich, powerful, and respected, but Dewald shows that there were also weaknesses in their apparently secure position near the top of French society. Family finances were unstable, and competing interests among family members generated conflicts and scandals; political ambitions led to other troubles, partly because aristocrats like the Rohan intensely valued individual achievement, even if it came at the expense of the family’s needs. Dewald argues that aristocratic power in the Old Regime reflected ongoing processes of negotiation and refashioning, in which both men and women played important roles. So did figures from outside the family—government officials, middle-class intellectuals and businesspeople, and many others. Dewald describes how the Old Regime’s ruling class maintained its power and the obstacles it encountered in doing so.
