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The Nobility of the Election of Bayeux, 1463-1666: Continuity Through Change
By (Author) James B. Wood
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Urban communities
Elections and referenda / suffrage
European history
305.5220944
Hardback
236
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
482g
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 an